The Untold Story of the Panama Canal
Marixa Lasso
overview
The Panama Canal set a new course for the modern development of Central America. Cutting a convenient path from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, it hastened the currents of trade and migration that were already reshaping the Western hemisphere. Yet the waterway was built at considerable cost to a way of life that had characterized the region for centuries. In Erased, Marixa Lasso recovers the history of the Panamanian cities and towns that once formed the backbone of the republic.
contents
Introduction
1. The Port and the City
2. The Canal Zone in 1904
3. A New Regime for Old Zone Towns
4. A Zone without Panamanians
5. After the Floods
6. Lost Towns
7. The Zone’s New Geography
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
