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
That position . Guest i worked in the rare book division, regular curator at the university. Downtown at the general theological center. And a doctorate in renaissance history in colombia. All of that led to my being here host and how long have you been with the New York Public Library . Guest since september of 2000. Host you have brought some things out to show was spirited collection. Guest i have. Well, an enormous collection, about 2,000 manuscripts and tens of thousands of printed items. This is what i like to call the tip of the burke said to speak. Here we have the only surviving manuscript. It was done in his lifetime. Is not in his hand, but it is in the hand of his secretary, personal assistant. This has the highest authority directly from his own manuscripts. You can see changes, differences between the text as presented here and mistakes in transcriptions that were not made in the First Edition and perpetuated throughout the centuries. For instance, in this all of whom wer
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