{"product_id":"the-canal-builders-making-americas-empire-at-the-panama-canal-9780143116783","title":"The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal","description":"\u003cb\u003e A revelatory look at a momentous undertaking-from the workers' point of view\u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/30\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143116783\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.42h x 5.60w x 1.09d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/16\/2010 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Julie Greene","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42935333683381,"sku":"9780143116783","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_d7d586a2-27c8-4134-88cb-4275a93d8943.jpg?v=1688487702","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-canal-builders-making-americas-empire-at-the-panama-canal-9780143116783","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}