Prize Possession
The United States Government and the Panama Canal 1903-1979
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 26 November 1993
- ISBN 9780521433068
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages456 pages
- Size 237x158x28 mm
- Weight 761 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
A comprehensive history of US policy towards the Panama Canal between.
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Prize Possession is a history of United States policy towards the Panama Canal, focusing principally on the first two generations of American tenure of the Canal Zone between 1904 and 1955. John Major also provides an extensive look at the nineteenth-century background, the making of the 1903 canal treaty with Panama, the move after 1955 towards the new treaty settlement of 1977, and the crucial significance of the Canal to American policy-makers and their public. The book is based for the most part on the hitherto largely untapped sources of US government agencies, namely, the State, War, and Navy Department, and the Canal Zone administration, as well as on the papers of notable dramatis personae such as Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and Philippe Bunau-Varilla. As such it makes an important and original contribution to our knowledge and understanding of a subject which has not yet received its due from historians.
"John Major has produced a diplomatic historian's history of the United States' Panama Canal policy: meticulously sourced and laden with documentary evidence, this jewel will be the standard on the subject for years to come....Every possible document that is currently available has been used....[and] these many sources are woven into a narrative that is a pleasure to read." Margaret E. Scranton, International History Review
Table of Contents:
Preface and acknowledgments; Part I. Prelude: 1826-1904: 1. The quest for an American canal, 1826-1903; 2. 'I took the isthmus', 1903-4; Part II. Beginnings: 1904-29: 3. The zone r&&&233;gime; 4. The labour force; 5. The Commissary; 6. The protectorate; 7. Canal defence; Part III. Transitions: 1930-55: 8. The zone r&&&233;gime; 9. The labour force; 10. The commissary; 11. Partnership politics; 12. Canal defence; Part IV. Recessional: 1956-79: 13. 'Mandate from civilization'?, Map of the Canal Zone; Appendices; Bibliography.
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