{"product_id":"the-canal-builders-making-americas-empire-at-the-panama-canal-paperback","title":"The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulie Greene\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e A revelatory look at a momentous undertaking-from the workers' point of view\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Panama Canal has long been celebrated as a triumph of American engineering and ingenuity. In \u003ci\u003eThe Canal Builders\u003c\/i\u003e, Julie Greene reveals that this emphasis has obscured a far more remarkable element of the historic enterprise: the tens of thousands of workingmen and workingwomen who traveled from all around the world to build it. Greene looks past the mythology surrounding the canal to expose the difficult working conditions and discriminatory policies involved in its construction. Drawing extensively on letters, memoirs, and government documents, the book chronicles both the struggles and the triumphs of the workers and their fami-lies. Prodigiously researched and vividly told, \u003ci\u003eThe Canal Builders\u003c\/i\u003e explores the human dimensions of one of the world's greatest labor mobilizations, and reveals how it launched America's twentieth-century empire.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulie Greene\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of history at the University of Maryland whose area of research is labor in the United States, immigration, and empire. She and historian Ira Berlin cofounded and now codirect the Center for Global Migration Studies at the University of Maryland, which is dedicated to generating knowledge of the history and politics of global migrations. Greene is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the James A. Rawley Prize for the best book on the history of race relations by the Organization of American Historians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 512\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.09 x 8.42 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 30, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53064609956173,"sku":"9780143116783","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/qAT9tKxP-a9780143116783.webp?v=1766598938","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/the-canal-builders-making-americas-empire-at-the-panama-canal-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}