The Canal Builders

Author : Julie Greene
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101011553

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A revelatory look at a momentous undertaking-from the workers' point of view The Panama Canal has long been celebrated as a triumph of American engineering and ingenuity. In The Canal Builders, Julie Greene reveals that this emphasis has obscured a far more remarkable element of the historic enterprise: the tens of thousands of workingmen and workingwomen who traveled from all around the world to build it. Greene looks past the mythology surrounding the canal to expose the difficult working conditions and discriminatory policies involved in its construction. Drawing extensively on letters, memoirs, and government documents, the book chronicles both the struggles and the triumphs of the workers and their fami­lies. Prodigiously researched and vividly told, The Canal Builders explores the human dimensions of one of the world's greatest labor mobilizations, and reveals how it launched America's twentieth-century empire.

Author : Anthony Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:804296625

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The Canal Builders by Anthony Burton Pdf

Author : Anthony Burton
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781473870352

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The Canal Builders by Anthony Burton Pdf

Canal Builders is a classic history book for anyone interested in the development of Britain's canal system. The book, which was first published in the 1970s, is now republished here in a new fifth edition. It takes the reader from the middle of the eighteenth century, to the start of the railway age in the early nineteenth century. Anthony Burton has revised and improved the original text, using new material that he has found in archives since it was first published, and has added many extra illustrations. This is the remarkable story of the many groups of people who were responsible for building Britain's canal system. There were industrialists such as Josiah Wedgwood, who promoted canals to help his own industry, and speculators, financed the projects in the hope of a good return. The work was planned by engineers, some of whom, such as James Brindley and Thomas Telford, have become famous, while others have remained virtually unknown but still did magnificent work. This is also the story of the great, anonymous army of men who actually did the work the navvies. This was the first book ever to study the lives of these labourers in detail. Altogether it is an epic story of how the transport route that made the industrial revolution possible was built.'Well planned and well written There is no better introduction to the early canal age.' The EconomistLinks End Links Author End Author

Author : Anthony Burton
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-19
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781473860490

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The Canal Pioneers by Anthony Burton Pdf

This is the story of canals used for transport and the men who built them from the earliest times, up to the end of the ninteenth century. This is a very long history: stones for the pyramids of Egypt were brought to the site by canal and one of the most imposing canal systems ever built, the Grand Canal of China, was begun in the sixth century BC. Development after the end of the Roman Empire was slow, but saw the steady improvement of river navigations through locks Ð the mitre gates were actually first designed by Leonardo da Vinci. The modern age of canals that cross summits began in France, and the most famous of these early waterways was the magnificent Canal du Midi, the brainchild of Pierre-Paul Riquet, completed in 1681. It was a visit to this canal, when he was a teenager on the Grand Tour, that inspired the Duke of Bridgewater to build his famous canal that inspired a rush of canal construction in Britain. BritainÕs canals became the essential transport route that made the countryÕs industrial revolution possible, thanks to engineers such as James Brindley, William Jessop and Thomas Telford. It was a period of intensive construction that lasted for fifty years from 1760. It saw many innovations from the use of cast iron for bridges and aqueducts, to inclined planes and vertical lifts to move boats from one canal level to another. The nineteenth century also saw extensive canal systems developing in North America, such as the famous Erie Canal, and culminated in two great ship canals at Suez and Panama. The book tells an exciting story of canal development and the many men who made it possible.

Author : John M. Bassett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Welland Canal (Ont.)
ISBN : LCCN:64003274

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The Canal Builders : the Building of the First Welland Canal by John M. Bassett Pdf

Author : Marixa Lasso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674984448

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The Lost Towns of the Panama Canal by Marixa Lasso Pdf

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.--

Author : Robert Payne
Publisher : New York, Macmillan
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Canals
ISBN : UVA:35007000186860

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Author : Ira E. Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243655258

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History of the Panama Canal by Ira E. Bennett Pdf

Author : Ira Elbert Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1104767694

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History of the Panama Canal: Its Construction and Builders (1915) by Ira Elbert Bennett Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Ira Elbert Bennett
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Historical Publishing Company
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Buccaneers
ISBN : UOM:39015011144451

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History of the Panama Canal by Ira Elbert Bennett Pdf

Author : Margarita Engle
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780544109414

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Silver People by Margarita Engle Pdf

Fourteen-year-old Mateo and other Caribbean islanders face discrimination, segregation, and harsh working conditions when American recruiters lure them to the Panamanian rain forest in 1906 to build the great canal.

Author : Jeremy Sherman Snapp
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0967363357

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Destiny by Design by Jeremy Sherman Snapp Pdf

Author/photographer Jeremy Snapp has produced a dramatic photo-essay of rare images that depict events in the decade preceding the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914. Original photos taken by Snapp's great-grandfather Gerald Sherman, a respected mining engineer of the day, deliver a technical perspective of this undertaking unlike anything previously published. Finally, as the U.S. ceded authority over the canal to the Panamanian government in 1999, Jeremy Snapp travelled to the canal zone with an antique cameratp capture images of the original buildings and construction relics that remained.

Author : Ira E. Bennett
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1377934535

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History of the Panama Canal Its Construction and Builders by Ira E. Bennett Pdf

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Author : Ira E 1868-1957 Bennett
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0342825569

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History of the Panama Canal; Its Construction and Builders by Ira E 1868-1957 Bennett Pdf

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Author : Roberta M. Styran,Robert R. Taylor
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773548343

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This Colossal Project by Roberta M. Styran,Robert R. Taylor Pdf

This Colossal Project presents an absorbing epic on the building of the fourth Welland Canal, which connects Lake Ontario and Lake Erie and allows ships to bypass Niagara Falls. An immense undertaking, the canal is a vital part of North America’s infrastructure and still functions as an essential part of the St Lawrence Seaway. Emphasizing the role that vivid personalities – including engineers John Laing Weller and Alex Grant as well as contractors and labourers – played in the construction of the canal, Roberta Styran and Robert Taylor use archival sources, government documents, newspapers, maps, and original plans to describe a saga of technological, financial, geographical, and social obstacles met and overcome in an accomplishment akin to the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. A story of Canadian skill, courage, vision, and hardship, This Colossal Project details the twenty-year excavation of the giant channel and the creation of huge concrete locks amidst war, the Great Depression, political change, and labour unrest. Building on the work presented in Styran and Taylor’s This Great National Object, which told the story of the first three Welland canals built in the nineteenth century, This Colossal Project chronicles an impressive milestone in the history of Canadian technological achievement and nation building.