TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greene, Julie,
TI  - The canal builders: making America's empire at the Panama Canal 
SN  - 9781594202018
AV  - F 1569.C2 .G83 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Press
KW  - Canals
KW  - Panama
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [450]-456) and index; Prologue: President Roosevelt's steam shovel -- A modern state in the tropics -- "As I am a true American" -- Silver lives -- Lay down your shovels -- Progressivism for the world -- The women's empire -- Law and order -- The riots of Cocoa Grove -- Hercules comes home
N2  - A history of the Panama Canal told from the perspectives of its construction workers discusses Theodore Roosevelt's unpopular vision for Panama, the extensive resources that went into its building, and its role as a symbol of American power
ER  -