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...I. B. Holley, Jr. The Canal Builders: The Story of Canal Engineers Through the Ages . By Payne Robert . New York Macmillan , 1959 . Pp. ix , 278 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 312 The South Atlantic Quarterly Jefferson Foundation is indeed mentioned...

...Richard W. Leopold The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective . By LaFeber Walter . New York : Oxford University Press , 1978 . Pp. xii , 248 . $10.95 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 BOOKS The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective...

...Gale McGee Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 After Panama: Some Lessons and Opportunities in the Aftermath of the Canal Treaties Debate Gale McGee On April 18, 1978, the United States Senate closed a long and color­ ful chapter in the annals of American public debate. By a vote...

...Dieter Cunz Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 PANAMA CANAL: THE DREAM OF FOUR CENTURIES DIETER CUNZ THE IDEA of an artificial tie between the Atlantic and Pacific is nearly as old as the knowledge of the existence of the latter ocean. When Spanish mariners entered the Western...

...John H. Latane Copyright © 1902 by Duke University Press 1902 The Principle of Neutralization Applied to Canals By John H. Latane, Professor of History in Washington and Lee University. Few questions of international interest have called forth so much discussion during the past fifty years...

...John H. Latane Copyright © 1902 by Duke University Press 1902 The Principle of Neutralization Applied to Canals By John H. Latane, Professor of History in Washington and Lee University. Few questions of international interest have called forth so much discussion during the past fifty years...

... Harold Edgell and Francis Henry Taylor, those other scholars under whom the American museum came of age. DUKE UNIVERSITY MARIANNA JENKINS The Canal Builders: The Story of Canal Engineers Through the Ages. By Robert Payne. New York Macmillan, 1959. Pp. ix, 278. $5.00. For those who like history...

... conditions ‘‘putrid open sewers ‘‘reeking contaminated canals ‘‘squatter camps ‘‘shanty towns and even the lthy, unsafe plants’’ that characterize the Mexican side of the border always seemed poised to spill over onto the U.S. side, following the logic that ‘‘pollution knows no boundaries The commonplace...

... of approach. But the writer and the artist will undertake a different and more hybrid sort of journey and see far more. The first lap of it can best be made by motor from Norfolk to Portsmouth and out the historic George Washington Highway running parallel with the Dismal Swamp Canal. From the rustic boat...

..., and for the construction of canals and roads to connect the various sections with each other. Two methods were available to bring to pass such a reform in commercial relations. One was that of private enterprise, the other the co-operation of state and private resources. Prior to 1815 the former method alone was used...

... retórica y poética (Dictionary of Rhetoric and Poetics) . 7t h ed. Mexico City : Porrúa Editorial . Canal 2 Cali . 2021 . “ ¿Qué pasó realmente en el Éxito de la Simón Bolívar de Calipso? ” May 20 . www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH36wo6Cgss . Ciudad Extrema . 2021 . “ Entrevista con la...

...Bayrd Still Three Centuries of New Haven . By Osterweis Rollin G. . New Haven , Yale University Press , 1953 . Pp. xvi , 541 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 Book Reviews 141 ing the Canal, commissary sales, and payment of the Canal annuity in devalued...

... railroad and highway, sales to ships transit­ Book Reviews 141 ing the Canal, commissary sales, and payment of the Canal annuity in devalued dollars, President Arias insisted, must be resolved on a basis that would satisfy all Panamanian aspirations. The Department of State, granting that any settlement...

... of crop rotation, pro­ vided the main inspiration for Spain s considerable program of dam and canal construction in the twentieth century. Costa s dream for the fructifying of the Ebro river valley was partially fulfilled in the late 1920 s by the Confederation del Ebro, whose chief engineer, Manuel...

... the prescient mind of DeWitt Clinton, seized upon the opportunity offered by the Hudson river and the Mohawk valley and built the Erie Canal. The Mohawk and Hudson Railroad, opened in 1831 and running between Albany and Schenectady, was the first link in a chain of transportation which developed into the great...

... moters turned to the public lotteries, hitherto honestly man­ aged, as a promising source of personal gain. They looked around, for example, and saw public utility companies, notably the canal companies of the day, possessed of governmental grants of the privilege of conducting a lot­ tery...

... railway, the Liverpool & Manchester, was officially opened. This was the day the Liverpool businessmen had been waiting for, in their hope of breaking the Bridgewater canal monopoly and opening up the Lancashire industrial hinterland. It was also the day on which George and Robert Stephenson depended...

... with a study of The Wabash Trade Route in the Develop­ ment of the Old Northwest. He goes quickly through the early period of French exploration and trans-continental travel down the lakes, and along the Wabash to the Mississippi, and comes to the Wabash and Erie Canal. This canal is treated historically...

... be recorded before the event happened, and that it should be made by a man of exceptional intelligence, few predictions are better than that made by Goethe in 1827 respecting the construction of a canal across the Isth­ mus of Panama. At that time the United States had not ac­ quired Texas and California...

... access to the markets of China and the Far East, brought about a renewed public interest in the construction ofan Isthmian Canal. In 1899 an Isthmian Canal Commission was authorized by Congress to make, lor the information of Congress and the President, a thorough investigation of the commercial...