Erased : the untold story of the Panama Canal /
The untold history of the Panama Canal, from Panama's point of view. Sleuth and scholar, Marixa Lasso has uncovered a long-overlooked story, to build their Canal, Americans displaced 40,000 Panamanians and erased entire cities, only to convince the world they had brought modernity to the tropic...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2019]
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| Summary: | The untold history of the Panama Canal, from Panama's point of view. Sleuth and scholar, Marixa Lasso has uncovered a long-overlooked story, to build their Canal, Americans displaced 40,000 Panamanians and erased entire cities, only to convince the world they had brought modernity to the tropics. |
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| Physical Description: | 344 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674984448 0674984447 |