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Author Lasso, Marixa, author.

Title Erased : the untold story of the Panama Canal / Marixa Lasso.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-319) and index.
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.-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Introduction -- The port and the city -- The Canal Zone in 1904 -- A new regime for old zone towns -- A zone without Panamanians -- After the floods -- Lost towns -- The zone's new geography -- Epilogue.
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Subject Panama Canal (Panama) -- History.
Cities and towns -- Panama -- Canal Zone -- History.
Cities and towns.
Canal Zone.
History.
Canal Zone.
Land use -- Panama -- Panama Canal -- Planning.
Planning.
Land use.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
Panama -- Panama Canal.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Central America.
Land use -- Planning.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Lasso, Marixa. Erased. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019 9780674984448 (DLC) 2018030885 (OCoLC)1047523658
ISBN 9780674239746 (electronic book)
0674239741 (electronic book)
9780674239753 (electronic book)
067423975X (electronic book)
9780674984448
0674984447
Standard No. 40028891696