Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the opening of the panama canal. As part of booktvs College Series we visited the university of maryland where professor julie greene talk to us about the workers from around the world who built the canal from her book the canal builders. The interview was about half an hour. The canal builders is the name of the book. The author is university of maryland professor julie greene. Professor green wended the idea of building a canal come about . Guest well the idea was an old one in american history, at least in the u. S. , at least from the mid19th century on but its been before that. Europeans have drunk of it for centuries. Host and always through panama . Guest no there was a lot of talk of going through nicaragua or even mexico but for a lot of reasons, the french seized on the idea of panama and then the United States debated long and hard about possibly going to nicaragua. Some earthquakes in the fact that the french had done construction w
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interviews from beaumont, texas are featured all weekend long on booktv. for more information visit c-span.org/localcontent. booktv interview university of maryland professor julie greene about her book the canal builders . the interview was recorded at the university of maryland in college park. it is about half an hour. the canal builders is the name of the book. the authors university of maryland professor julie greene. when did the idea of building a canal come up? the idea was an old one in american history. at least in the u.s. but even before that, europeans dream of it for centuries. always through panama? guest: there was a lot of talk of going through nicaragua or even mexico. but for a lot of reasons the french seized on the idea of panama and the united states debated long and hard about possibly going to nicaragua but some earthquakes and the fact ;ç that the french had done some ;ç construction work in panama mads that a better approach. host: w
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