Books by Joan Flores-Villalobos
“She shows that understanding women more fully changes our entire understanding of the project. They shaped the economy, and like the male labourers, they had to choose between accommodating themselves to the power of the US or resisting – typically, of course, doing some of both. They negotiated wages; they fought for more respect; they went to court over insults issued against them. They fought to get money from husbands or domestic partners who abandoned them. One of the most common jobs they had was in the home of a white US housewife, so she also shows us how empire shapes intimate relations by zooming in on how these women interacted with their bosses.” Read more...
The best books on The Panama Canal
Julie Greene, Historian
Interviews where books by Joan Flores-Villalobos were recommended
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
by David McCullough -
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Dying to Better Themselves
by Olive Senior -
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The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labour Made The Panama Canal
by Joan Flores-Villalobos -
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The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal
by Carlos Yu & Noel Maurer -
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Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal
by Marixa Lasso
The best books on The Panama Canal, recommended by Julie Greene
The best books on The Panama Canal, recommended by Julie Greene
The Panama Canal was an engineering feat but also a social feat, coordinating tens of thousands of workers, uprooting their families, and displacing a former world in the heart of Panama. Historian Julie Greene picks five books to tell the story of Panama from every angle – from the early attempts to the economic outcomes, via the extraordinary lives of the men and women who made it possible.
