Panama Canal: Bibliography

See G. W. Goethals, The Panama Canal: An Engineering Treatise (1916); M. P. DuVal, And the Mountains Will Move (1947, repr. 1968); D. G. Payne, The Impossible Dream (1972); J. P. Speller, The Panama Canal (1972); G. H. Summ and T. Kelly, The Good Neighbors: America, Panama, and the 1977 Canal Treaties (1988); A. C. Richard, The Panama Canal in American National Consciousness, 1870–1990 (1990).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Panamanian Control
• Construction and Improvements
• Insurrection against Colombia
• French Attempts
• U.S. Interest in a Canal
• Bibliography

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