France and Panama
The Unknown Years, 1894-1908
(Sprache: Englisch)
A study of the brief but turbulent history of the New Panama Canal Company which replaced the bankrupt de Lesseps concern on the Isthmus in 1894. Unable to contemplate completion of the waterway because of a paucity of resources, the company's agents and...
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A study of the brief but turbulent history of the New Panama Canal Company which replaced the bankrupt de Lesseps concern on the Isthmus in 1894. Unable to contemplate completion of the waterway because of a paucity of resources, the company's agents and adherents were nevertheless instrumental in attracting the interest of the United States' government which concluded a purchase of New Company assets in 1904. Though primarily a company history, the work examines the economic and political background against which the drama unfolded.
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Contents: A study of the New Panama Canal Company, the French corporation which replaced the bankrupt de Lesseps venture on the Panamanian Isthmus in 1894 and sold its concession to the U.S. government in 1904.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: James M. Skinner
- 1988, Neuausg., X, 310 Seiten, Maße: 14,9 x 22,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- ISBN-10: 0820408220
- ISBN-13: 9780820408224
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.1988
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Englisch
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A work which fills a distinct historiographical gap and places both the de Lesseps enterprise and the origins of the US canal in a valuable new perspective. (John Major, Latin American Studies)Skinner, however, chooses not to focus upon economic explanations of the company's failure, opting, instead, for a detailed, even tortuous, account of political intrigue and in-fighting which appears to have plagued the company. On a broader level, he offers further explanation in terms of American imperialist expansion at the end of the nineteenth century... (Simon P. Ville, Business History)
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"A work which fills a distinct historiographical gap and places both the de Lesseps enterprise and the origins of the US canal in a valuable new perspective." (John Major, Latin American Studies)"Skinner, however, chooses not to focus upon economic explanations of the company's failure, opting, instead, for a detailed, even tortuous, account of political intrigue and in-fighting which appears to have plagued the company. On a broader level, he offers further explanation in terms of American imperialist expansion at the end of the nineteenth century..." (Simon P. Ville, Business History)
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