Customer Review: I was preparing to give a lecture at the annual meeting of the Panama Canal Society in Orlando, Florida, and they had asked me to speak to the many cultures on the Isthmus, from its discovery by the Spanish through modern day. This little book was a tremendous find. This author was very astute in... more info
Customer Review: John Lindsay-Poland nos repasa en este relato la historia escondida de los Estados unidos en Panamá. El libro tiene siete partes pero realmente aborda cinco temas fundamentales. Inicialmente nos da un repaso, my breve, de la historia de la relaciones de Panamá con EE.UU. para que... more info
Customer Review: If I recall correctly, approximately 3,000 innocent civilians were killed by the illegal invasion of a sovereign nation (Panama) by President Bush the First - who happened to hold a grudge against its leader! The vast majority of those killed were the poorest of the poor, whose only crime was to be... more info
Author Greene brings to life the society that developed in the Canal Zone from 1904 - 1914 and ends with a brief discussion of the aftermath of the Canal's opening. I haven't read McCullough's acclaimed book, but as I understand its content, Greene scopes out a totally different area. She does... more info
Customer Review: Loizillon gives Bunau-Varilla his due in this well-researched, thorough, and novel account of the Panama Canal. This is a must-read for any serious student of how the Canal came to be, and the intrigue, politics and science behind it.
Customer Review: The Panama Canal is not the first book in the Wonders of the World series we've purchased. Thus I was dumbfounded to find the inaccuracies and outright bias with which The Panama Canal ends. I am a trained medical scientist, a member of the American Chemical Society's medicinal and analytical... more info
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