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Author Missal, Alexander.

Title Seaway to the future : American social visions and the construction of the Panama Canal / Alexander Missal.

Publication Info. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 267 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in American thought and culture
Studies in American thought and culture.
Contents Logistics of expansion : the long road to realization -- American triumph: explaining the canal project -- The engineered view: the Panama Canal in pictures -- Ideal community : the canal zone as an American utopia -- Celebrating the canal : the Panama-Pacific international exposition.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-259) and index.
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Subject Panama Canal (Panama) -- History.
Panama Canal (Panama) -- In popular culture.
Canals -- Social aspects -- Panama.
Canals -- Social aspects.
Panama.
Canals.
Canals -- Panama -- Design and construction.
Panama Canal (Panama) -- Social policy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Missal, Alexander. Seaway to the future. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2008 9780299229405 (DLC) 2008011969 (OCoLC)223848535
ISBN 9780299229436 (electronic book)
0299229432 (electronic book)
0299229408 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780299229405 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780299229405 (cloth ; alkaline paper)