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| Named Person: | Theodore Roosevelt; William Nelson Cromwell; J Pierpont Morgan |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ovidio Diaz Espino |
| ISBN: | 1568581963 9781568581965 |
| OCLC Number: | 45879801 |
| Description: | xviii, 254 p., [13] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Major Characters -- Scandal -- Wall Street Faces Congress -- Colombia's Gamble -- Panamanian Cohorts -- Teddy's Conspiracy -- Seducing the Patriots -- Hamlet Revolution -- Birthday of Bribery -- Treachery -- The Rape of the Isthmus -- Who Got the Money? -- Epilogue: A Chapter of Dishonor. |
| Responsibility: | Ovidio Diaz Espino. |
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Abstract:
How Wall Street created a nation illustrates how a combination of financial gain and arrogant American imperialism culminated in the building of the Panama Canal. Ovidio Diaz Espino has pieced together the tale of a dark alliance of greed between the bankrupt French Panama Canal Company and a secret syndicate of Wall Street financiers. With the full force of Teddy Roosevelt's Wall Street cabal and his gunboat diplomacy behind it, there was no stopping the canal project despite the objections of the American Congress and press. Espino brings a combination of financial acumen, historical expertise, and Latin American sensibility to this book.
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- Panama Canal (Panama) -- Finance -- History.
- Panama -- History -- 20th century.
- Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)
- Roosevelt, Theodore, -- 1858-1919.
- Cromwell, William Nelson, -- 1854-1948.
- Morgan, J. Pierpont -- (John Pierpont), -- 1837-1913.
- Compagnie universelle du canal interocéanique de Panama.
- Wirtschaft.
- USA.
- Panamakanal.
