Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal, written by Olive Senior

Michael L Conniff

doi:10.1163/22134360-09001045

Abstract

Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal, written by Olive Senior

Highlights

Olive Senior Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal
The book does for West Indians in Panama what David McCullough and Julie Greene did for the Canal1—it immortalizes them
The book begins with the inauguration of the Canal in 1914, an event that marked the rise to global prominence of the United States

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Introduction

Olive Senior Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2014. Writing a history about a whole people takes strong historical drive and determined focus, both of which happily inspired this book.

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