Books by Julie Greene
Julie Greene is a historian of United States, transnational, and global labor and immigration. She is the author of Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal, which explores a set of remarkable memoirs written by canal workers (and held in Box 25 at the Library of Congress) as the starting point for considering migration, power, and silences in history. Previously, Greene authored The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the Panama Canal, which received the Organization of American Historians’ James A. Rawley Prize for the best book on the history of race relations.
“I wanted to show that the labour problem in the Canal was really at the heart of the project. We often think of it as a triumph of engineering and medicine, and certainly, that’s how McCullough saw it. But, from the beginning, I took some wisdom from the chief engineer of the project, George Washington Goethals. He said that those aspects really weren’t that innovative. What was innovative was figuring out how to discipline and manage this vast workforce of people – so that’s what The Canal Builders took on.” Read more...
The best books on The Panama Canal
Julie Greene, Historian
Interviews with Julie Greene
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
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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.
Interviews where books by Julie Greene were recommended
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1
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
by David McCullough -
2
Dying to Better Themselves
by Olive Senior -
3
The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labour Made The Panama Canal
by Joan Flores-Villalobos -
4
The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal
by Carlos Yu & Noel Maurer -
5
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.
