A Man, a Plan, a Canal: Panama Rises. Bob Cullen.
by Cullen, Bob; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 7Global Issues. Publisher: Smithsonian, 2004ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Canals -- History | Panama -- Description and travel | Panama -- Politics and government | Panama Canal (Panama) -- History | Panama -- History | Railroads | Roosevelt TheodoreDDC classification: 050 Summary: This article details how, "after ten years and a cost of $352 million and 5,609 lives, the United States successfully completed the [Panama] canal....The construction of the canal proved both an imaginative solution to a formidable engineering problem and a signal of the United States' emergence as a great power" (SMITHSONIAN).| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: A Man, a Plan, a Canal: Panama Rises, March 2004; pp. 44-54.
This article details how, "after ten years and a cost of $352 million and 5,609 lives, the United States successfully completed the [Panama] canal....The construction of the canal proved both an imaginative solution to a formidable engineering problem and a signal of the United States' emergence as a great power" (SMITHSONIAN).
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