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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... beginning of the 1700s South Amer- ica's gold and silver mines were beginning to be exhausted , and Panama's privileged trading position waned accordingly . Other factors also contrib- uted to the decline . The new Bourbon Spanish Crown ...
Robert C. Harding. From the beginning , Panama's independence was nominal , because the newly established strip of U.S. - controlled territory surrounding the Canal Zone divided the country in half . Similar to the Platt Amendment ...
... beginning of a confusing but important period of transition that was the beginning of a shift in political power toward the military and away from the weakened oligarchy , a change that would dominate Panama for the next 41 years . The ...
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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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