Erased : the untold story of the Panama Canal /
Marixa Lasso.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations, map
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.--
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Cities and towns--History.--Panama--Canal Zone Land use--Planning.--Panama--Panama Canal