Panama Fever - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Panama Fever write by Matthew Parker. This book was released on 2009-03-10. Panama Fever available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the “American Century.” Panama Fever draws on contemporary accounts, bringing the experience of those who built the canal vividly to life. Politicians engaged in high-stakes diplomacy in order to influence its construction. Meanwhile, engineers and workers from around the world rushed to take advantage of high wages and the chance to be a part of history. Filled with remarkable characters, Panama Fever is an epic history that shows how a small, fiercely contested strip of land made the world a smaller place and launched the era of American global dominance.
The Lost Towns of the Panama Canal
The Lost Towns of the Panama Canal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lost Towns of the Panama Canal write by Marixa Lasso. This book was released on 2019-02-25. The Lost Towns of the Panama Canal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.--
Is this Panama?
Is this Panama? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Is this Panama? write by Jan Thornhill. This book was released on 2013. Is this Panama? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When a young Wilson's warbler named Sammy wakes up one morning, ready to start his first migratory journey to Panama, he finds that the other warblers have already left, so he looks for help from other animals, who each have their own way of getting through the winter.
Panama's Story
Panama's Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Panama's Story write by David Albert Francis. This book was released on 2013-10-25. Panama's Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. INTRODUCTION My name is David Albert Francis. However, I am known in the music world as “Panama” Francis, a name that was given to me by Roy Eldridge when I joined his band in 1939. I was born in Miami, Florida, on December 21, 1918, four days short of becoming a Christmas present to my parents. I must tell you that I am a stutterer. Sometime, when I get excited or try to make a point, my voice goes up about two octaves. I come across to some people as being angry but, believe me, this [what?] is how I get the words to flow. My facial expression might appear to you to be an angry expression. What is happening is that I am concentrating on getting the words to come out, without interruptions. I am sick now from twenty years of life on the board, riding on a bus for hours on end, eating unhealthy (and sometimes unsanitary?) food, and traveling 300 to 500 miles at a time without a bathroom break. The current health of bodies of my fellow musicians and I bear witness to the pain and suffering we experienced on the road. I am among many, many musicians who are paying now for these deplorable conditions on the road. We have serious health ailments that are directly attributable to what we experienced on the road and have negatively impacted the very days of our lives when we should be reaping the benefits of our long years of hard work. We are paying the price.
African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama
African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama write by Robert C. Schwaller. This book was released on 2021-09-02. African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the 1520s through the 1580s, thousands of African slaves fled captivity in Spanish Panama and formed their own communities in the interior of the isthmus. African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama, a primary source reader, edited by Robert C. Schwaller, documents this marronage in the context of five decades of African resistance to slavery. The self-sufficiency of the Maroons, along with their periodic raids against Spanish settlements, sparked armed conflict as Spaniards sought to conquer the maroon communities and kill or re-enslave their populations. After decades of struggle, Maroons succeeded in negotiating a peace with Spanish authorities and establishing the first two free Black towns in the Americas. The little-known details of this dramatic history emerge in these pages, traced through official Spanish accounts, reports, and royal edicts, as well as excerpts from several English sources that recorded alliances between Maroons and English privateers in the region. The contrasting Spanish and English accounts reveal Maroons' attempts to turn European antagonism to their advantage; and, significantly, several accounts feature direct testimony from Maroons. Most importantly, this reader includes translations of the first peace agreements made between a European empire and African Maroons, and the founding documents of the free-Black communities of Santiago del Príncipe and Santa Cruz la Real—the culmination of the first successful African resistance movement in the Americas. Schwaller has translated all the documents into English and presents each with a short introduction, thorough annotations, and full historical, cultural, and geographical context, making this volume accessible to undergraduate students while remaining a unique document collection for scholars.
