Canada: Bibliotex, 2021. — 197 p. Presents a concise history of Panama, spanning the period of its colonization by the Spanish to the present day. It explores the intersection of migration and labor history, ethnic and racial politics, and cultural activities.
San Diego: ReferencePoint Press, Inc., 2015. — 96 p. — (History’s great structures). — ISBN: 978-1-60152-710-3 The Panama Canal, which links the Pacific and Atlantic oceans through 44 miles of Central America, will have been open for 100 years in 2014. Constructed in a difficult environment by workers from many nations, the canal increased trade and eased global travel. The...
Panama City: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014. — 411 p. Proceedings of sessions honoring the 100th anniversary of the Panama Canal at the ASCE Global Engineering Conference 2014, held in Panama City, Panama, October 7-11, 2014. Sponsored by the History and Heritage Committee of ASCE. The history of the Panama Canal began nearly 500 years ago with the discovery by the...
Routledge, 2001. — 232 p. This is a comprehensive examination of the evolution of the politicization of the Panamanian military and the legacy of this transformation in modern Panamanian politics. It addresses the fundamental role that the Panamanian military played in influencing and molding the modern-day Panamanian political system--structurally, legally, and...
Greenwood Press, 2006. — 178 p. As the narrowest stretch of land in the Central American isthmus, Panama's geographical location has for millenia made it the crossroads for traders, travelers, European pirates, and world superpowers. Panamanian history is replete with explicit or tacit domination by others. In the post-Columbus period, Panama was first a Spanish colony, then a...
Oxford: ABC-Clio, 1997. — 300 p. — (World Bibliographical Series). — ISBN: 185109251X, 978-1851092512. The compilers provide the English-speaker with a key work of reference on all aspects of Panama 's past and present.
Scarecrow Press, 2014. — 378 p. This Historical A-Z Dictionary of Panama covers Panama’s unique history from the time of its Spanish colonization, through its connection to Colombia in the nineteenth century, and its long period of U.S. presence. Throughout these periods, Panama drew the outside world’s attention as a transit route that first connected the west coasts of Latin...
Anchor Books, 2009. — 530 p. — ISBN: 978-1400095186. The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in human history. It literally required moving mountains, breaking the back of the great range that connects North and South America. Begun by the French in 1880, its successful completion in 1914 by the Americans marked the end of the Victorian Age and the beginning of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 210 p. The most comprehensive and empirically grounded analysis of the institutional and attitudinal factors that have shaped Panamanian politics since the 1989 U.S. invasion. Panama offers a unique opportunity to understand the long-term effects of United States policy and the challenges of building democracy after a military invasion.
Routledge, 2019. — 177 p. This book examines the first seven years of Omar Torrijos's military government, with particular attention to its efforts to build political institutions appropriate to the dynamics of class relations within Panama and the country's evolving dependency on the United States.
South End Press, 1991. — 164 p. This book counters the media blitz that portrayed the invasion of Panama—dubbed "Operation Just Cause" by the Pentagon—as a restoration of democracy and a war against drugs. It details the horrors of the invasion as experienced by the civilian population and documents the invasion's genocidal character, thus providing the truth behind the U.S....
Москва: ИМО, 1958. — 188 с. Книга посвящена истории захвата Соединенными Штатами Америки зоны Панамского канала. Автор подробно рассматривает дипломатическую подготовку захвата американскими империалистами Панамского перешейка, принадлежавшего ранее Колумбии, организацию так называемой панамской «революции» и навязывание «независимой» Панаме грабительского договора о канале. В...
М.: Прогресс, 1974. — 128 с. О Панаме, небольшой стране Центральной Америки (территория — 76 тысяч квадратных километров, население — 1,5 миллиона человек), много говорят и пишут. Почему она привлекает к себе такое пристальное внимание международной общественности? Причин несколько. В Панаме, как в фокусе, сосредоточены главные противоречия, разделяющие США и страны Латинской...
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