About this title: This book tells a previously untold story of decades of financial speculation, fraud, and international conspiracy that led to the creation of the Panama Canal. The author meticulously details the dark alliance among a French company; Teddy Roosevelt with his gunboat diplomacy; and a secretive syndicate of Wall Street financiers that masterminded a coup in Colombia and the secession of Panama in 1903. Panama then welcomed the canal building, and the U. S. foreign policy precedent was set for the 20th century. How Wall Street Created a Nation includes historical photographs and is a ...
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Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MJF Books, New York
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781568581965ISBN:1568581963
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 254 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Published in arrangement with Four Walls Eight Windows. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows
Date Published: 2003-09
ISBN-13:9781568582665ISBN:1568582668
Description: Very Good+ 2001 Paperback. 254 pgs. Cvr has a few creases and shows some wear at edges/corners. Text: corner of 1 text pg has a fingerprint, 3 text pg corners creased/folded; no highlight, underlining or margin notes. Light wear at spine ends, but no spine crease from reading. Good reading copy. PHIUS-ESPU12F1. read more
Description: Very good. 2001 Four Walls Eight Windows Publishers Hardcover Edition. Slight wear to Dust Jacket, otherwise in Excellent Condition! Ships Fast! ! ! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781568582665ISBN:1568582668
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Surplus inventory direct from publisher. Has remainder mark. No wear to covers. Interior also fine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 254 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows
Date Published: 2001-06-14
ISBN-13:9781568581965ISBN:1568581963
Description: F Fine in NF Near Fine jacket. Hardback with Dustjacket. Book is like new with no creases to cover and all pages clean. Binding is tight and square. read more
Description: New in no jacket. pp. 254. In 1997, while attending a Manhattan Christmas party, J.P. Morgan lawyer Ovidio Diaz Espino met someone who told him that Panama had been created by a group of Wall Street investors in room 1162 of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. As a native Panamanian, Diaz Espino was so roused by the claim that he immediately went to the library & started digging. This is the account of what he found: an event in world history that brought down a French republic & a Colombian government ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2003-09-29
ISBN-13:9781568582665ISBN:1568582668
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9781568582665. read more
Edition: First edition thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MJF Books; Fine Communications, New York
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781567316155ISBN:1567316158
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xviii, 254 pp., illus., biblio., index; 22 cm. AS NEW. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. read more
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo. xviii, 254pp, chronology of events, map of the Caribbean Sea, index. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket. The book chronicles events from Panamanian battlefields to New York City newsrooms, from corporate offices to the halls of congress in its coverage of American imperialism in Central America. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2001-06-14
ISBN-13:9781568581965ISBN:1568581963
Description: Very Good. **WITHDRAWN LIBRARY COPY** with customary markings or stickers; No writing or marks in text. Choose your shipping option based on the time you are able to wait for delivery. read more
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