TY - BOOK AU - Lasso,Marixa TI - Erased: the untold story of the Panama Canal SN - 9780674239746 AV - F1569 .E737 2019 PY - 2019/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - Harvard University Press KW - Cities and towns KW - Panama KW - Canal Zone KW - History KW - Land use KW - Panama Canal KW - Planning KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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.-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2007525&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -