Books by Olive Senior
“Olive Senior is Jamaican, best known for her poetry and novels, so she came to this task—a nonfiction book focused on Caribbean workers—with these incredible writing skills. So first of all, it’s just a really beautiful narrative. She integrates cultural sources like songs and fictional writings into how she understands the Caribbean people. She centres the Caribbean itself in this story: she shows how the building of the Canal, and the vast migrations across the Caribbean that made it possible, reshaped not only Panama but the Caribbean too.” Read more...
The best books on The Panama Canal
Julie Greene, Historian
Interviews where books by Olive Senior 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.
