100 years of the Panama Canal
Subtitle: celebrating the centennial 1914-2014
By: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
Contributors: Panama Canal Museum; University of Florida. Friends of the Panama Canal Museum
Publisher: Faircount Media Group
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Tampa, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Centennial celebrations; History; Trade routes
Other titles: One hundred years of the Panama Canal :
Description: "A special publication commissioned by the Panama Canal Museum commemorates this international anniversary and historic milestone with articles about the history, impact, and future of the Panama Canal, the Canal Zone, and the people and place that gave rise to this marvel of engineering."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Cover title.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Rachel Schipper; title: The Canal Zone: What was it? Where was it? Why was it? / Richard D. Morgan; title: Architecture of the Panama Canal Zone / Edith Read Barkowitz Crouch; title: The ladies, God bless them! / Paul W. Morgan, Jr.; title: Military significance of the Panama Canal / César A. Vásquez; title: Public schools in the Canal Zone / Patrice Brown; title: The black paradox on the Panama Canal / Anthony McLean; title: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the construction of the Panama Canal / James T. Garber; title: Evolution of a global passageway / Richard Wainio; title: The Panama Canal transfer: a success story: Two countries coming together to do what needed to be done / Alberto Alemán Zubieta; title: Documenting the Panama Canal Expansion Program / Ernesto A. Holder; title: Design of the third set of locks for the Panama Canal Expansion Program / Greg Hillebrener; title: Everyday challenges in the Third Set of Locks Project / Jan Kop; title: Summary of the study: Cross culture work: Practices of collaboration in the Panama Canal Expansion Program / Karen Smits; title: Panama Canal centennial celebration exhibitions at the University of Florida / Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler; title: Indigenous arts of Panama / Edith Read Barkowitz Crouch; title: Symphony of the Americas Summerfest 2014 / James Brooks-Bruzzese and Renée LaBonte; title: Discovering the ancient biodiversity of tropical America: a once-in-a-century opportunity along the Panama Canal / Aaron Wood with Bruce MacFadden; title: Health and safety during canal construction / Nancy Schaefer, Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig, and Rolando Garcia-Milian; title: Educational outreach: Panama and the making of modern Caribbean literature / Leah Rosenberg; title: The Panama and the Canal Digital Collection and the Digital Library of the Caribbean / Laurie N. Taylor.