Panama Fever: The Battle to Build the Canal

Synopsis of Panama Fever: The Battle to Build the Canal

«Panama Fever: The Battle to Build the Canal» is the historical essay by Matthew Parker, published by Hutchinson in hardback (464 pages, in English).

Chronicle of the project to unite the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through Panama: from the French attempt of 1880 to the American inauguration of 1914. Parker shows the enormous human cost of the work (disease, jungle and mountains) and the change it meant for world trade and the power of the United States.

First edition published in March 2007. The work falls within Central American history and hydraulic engineering.

For those interested in Central American history, engineering and the period of United States expansion at the beginning of the 20th century.