Overview: On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. The Canal's creation is often seen as an example of U.S. triumphalism, but No…
Before World War II the United States possessed only a handful of overseas military installations. These included bases in the Philippine Islands, Guam in the Mariana Islands, Wake Island, Midway Island, and the Hawaiian Islands, all in the Pacific; and bases in the Panama Canal…
Considering the Panama Canal as an artificial strait, this book will let legal logic yield to historical and geographic experience by recasting the Panama Canals environment as the product of three elements, suggesting new perspectives about its past and future.
This thesis studies the institutional structure of the civil government and leadership at the Panama Canal during the American construction period between 1904 and 1914. As the signal piece of global infrastructure of the Progressive Era, the canal substantially amplified the Un…