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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 14-24 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	November 2008
Genre:	Romane, Erzählungen, Gedichte
	Poetry / POETRY / American
ISBN:	9780299149147
EAN-Code:	9780299149147
Verlag:	University Of Wisconsin Press
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Serie:	#1995 - Wisconsin Poetry
Dimensionen:	H 215 mm / B 139 mm / D 9 mm
Gewicht:	141 gr
Seiten:	96
Bewertung:	Titel bewerten / Meinung schreiben

Inhalt:

Realizing the century-old dream of a passage to India, the building of the Panama Canal was an engineering feat of colossal dimensions, a construction site filled not only with mud and water but with interpretations, meanings, and social visions. Alexander Missal s Seaway to the Future unfolds a cultural history of the Panama Canal project, revealed in the texts and images of the era s policymakers and commentators. Observing its creation, journalists, travel writers, and officials interpreted the Canal and its environs as a perfect society under an efficient, authoritarian management featuring innovations in technology, work, health, and consumption. For their middle-class audience in the United States, the writers depicted a foreign yet familiar place, a showcase for the future images reinforced in the exhibits of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition that celebrated the Canal s completion. Through these depictions, the building of the Panama Canal became a powerful symbol in a broader search for order as Americans looked to the modern age with both anxiety and anticipation. Like most utopian visions, this one aspired to perfection at the price of exclusion. Overlooking the West Indian laborers who built the Canal, its admirers praised the white elite that supervised and administered it. Inspired by the masculine ideal personified by President Theodore Roosevelt, writers depicted the Canal Zone as an emphatically male enterprise and Chief Engineer George W. Goethals as the emblem of a new type of social leader, the engineer-soldier, the benevolent despot. Examining these and other images of the Panama Canal project, Seaway to the Future shows how they reflected popular attitudes toward an evolving modern world and, no less important, helped shape those perceptions. Best Books for Regional Special Interests, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association Provide s] a useful vantage on the world bequeathed to us by the forces that set out to put America astride the globe nearly a century ago. Chris Rasmussen, Bookforum"