The History of PanamaBloomsbury Academic, 2006 M05 30 - 153 páginas As the narrowest stretch of land in the Central American isthmus, Panama's geographical location has for millenia made it the crossroads for traders, travelers, European pirates, and world superpowers. Panamanian history is replete with explicit or tacit domination by others. In the post-Columbus period, Panama was first a Spanich colony, then a province of Colombia, and then finally a quasi-territory of the United States during the 20th century. Suffering invasion by the United States in 1989 to oust dictator Manuel Noriega and then receiving full ownership of the Panama Canal at the end of 1999, Panama has rebuilt itself into a strong, if contentious democracy. |
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... French and even sent warships to loom off Panama's coast , but neither Colombia nor France was intimi- dated by the show of force and called Hayes's bluff . Construction began in 1879 to much fanfare and prognostications of success ...
... French consul died within a week after arriving . The French company pressed on with the arduous task of blasting and excavating the land . The array of then state - of - the - art construction equipment was both impres- sive and ...
... French and U.S. ef- forts , medical science had progressed greatly . The French had believed that yellow fever was caused by poisonous gases from wetlands and was passed from person to person through sewage , filth , and decaying animal ...
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Panama Is a Canal and More | 1 |
Colonial Panama to Independence | 11 |
Completing the Canal to World War II | 27 |
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