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The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama...

Greene, Julie / White, Karen
The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal [With Earbuds]
The Panama Canal has long been celebrated as a triumph of American engineering and technology. In The Canal Builders, Julie Greene reveals that this emphasis obscures a far more remarkable element of the canal's construction---the tens of thousands of workingmen and -women who traveled from around the world to build it. Drawing on research from around the globe, Greene explores the human dimensions of the Panama Canal story, revealing how it t...

CHF 104.00

Bridgehampton's Summer Colony

Greene, Julie B.
Bridgehampton's Summer Colony
The hamlet of Bridgehampton was settled in 1656 and aptly named for the bridge that was built to connect the settlements of Mecox and Sagaponack. Ninety miles from New York City, this rural farming community was transformed by the arrival of the Long Island Rail Road in 1870. With the notion that salt air and sea breezes were the perfect relief from the hot and sweltering isle of Manhattan, wealthy New Yorkers made the sojourn to the pristine ...

CHF 38.50

The Canal Builders

Greene, Julie
The Canal Builders
This groundbreaking history of the Panama Canal offers a revelatory workers' eye-view of the momentous undertaking and shows how it launched the American century.

CHF 35.50