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1	The sweet burnt smell of history a self-reflexive analysis on the conception of the 8th Panama Biennial / Arriola Ranc, Magali. January 2009 (has links) Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed January 19, 2010). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-86). Canal Zone Arts
2	West Indians in Panama: Diversity and Activism, 1910s – 1940s Zenger, Robin Elizabeth January 2015 (has links) At least 50,000 working-class laborers from the West Indies, many of them poor and unemployed, remained with their families in central Panama after the construction of the Panama Canal in 1914. Over the next thirty years, along with a small number of West Indian professionals, religious leaders, and business owners, they established ways to sustain themselves in locales, both in Panama and the American-controlled Canal Zone, where they faced challenges and opposition. Their sizable presence interrupted ideals of elite politicians in Panama to Hispanicize the population. Nationalist Panamanians stigmatized them as culturally different competitors for canal maintenance jobs, and lacking in loyalty to the state because they clung to English and their British colonial citizenship. In the Canal Zone, they faced racial segregation and second-class status. This dissertation examines critical physical and cultural spaces the immigrants created to foster community, provide social and economic security, educate their children, and as a corollary, develop new identities. Using archival material, land records, interviews and historical newspapers from Panama and the United States, and informed by a wide range of secondary sources, the chapters examine the activism of West Indians, in the context of Panamanian historical trends. The case studies analyze involvement of the immigrants in three particular settings: as members of voluntary associations called lodges, as renters and residents of neighborhoods, and as shapers of education for their children, who were born into citizenship in Panama. West Indians had come to Panama from different island cultures and maintained many differences, yet in these settings they developed commonalities and shared experiences as West Indian Panamanians. In the process, West Indian immigrants influenced Panama's development in ways little acknowledged in Panamanian or American national, social or economic history. Canal Zone Diaspora Immigrants Panama West Indian History activism
3	The Growth and Development of the Canal Zone College Smith, Michael E. 08 1900 (has links) This study deals with the growth and development of higher education in the Canal Zone from 1933 to the present. This study uses information obtained from the special Panama Collection available at the Canal Zone Public Library, government documents, letters, and administrative memoranda on file in the Agency Record Center, interviews, personal correspondence, newspapers, Panama Canal publications, minutes of meetings held by local chapters of Association of University Professors and Advisory Council, annual reports, reports made by Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, bulletins, and yearbooks. Canal Zone College higher education in Panama college growth
4	Dr. William Gorgas and his style of management against yellow fever during the construction of the Panama Canal : a historical case study. Aboul-Enein, Faisal H. Franzini, Luisa, Ross, Michael W., January 2009 (has links) Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: B, page: 3460. Adviser: Carl S. Hacker. Includes bibliographical references.
5	A History of the United States Caribbean Defense Command (1941-1947) Vasquez, Cesar A 25 March 2016 (has links) The United States Military is currently organized along the lines of regional combatant commands (COCOMs). Each COCOM is responsible for all U.S. military activity in their designated area of responsibility (AOR). They also deal with diplomatic issues of a wide variety with the countries within their respective AORs. Among these COCOMs, Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), whose AOR encompasses all of Central and South America (less Mexico) and the Caribbean, is one of the smallest in terms of size and budget, but has the longest history of activity among the COCOMs as it is the successor to the first joint command, the United States Caribbean Defense Command (CDC 1941-1947). Existing from 1941 to 1947, the CDC was tasked with protecting the Panama Canal, the Canal Zone, and all its access points as well as defending the region from Axis aggression and setting up a series of U.S. bases throughout the Caribbean from which to project U.S. military power after World War II. Throughout its short history, however, the CDC was plagued with the same types of resource scarcity that its successor commands would later experience. Early successes, as well as the progress of the war saw to it that the original mission of the Command was quickly rendered moot. Ironically, it was partially the success of the U.S. war effort that kept the CDC from ever reaching its full potential. Nevertheless, the CDC evolved into something different than had originally been envisioned. In the end, it became the model that other COCOMs would follow after November 1947 when the system of regional combatant commands was formally established. Although some research has been conducted into the history of these commands, this dissertation is the first academic attempt to chronicle the history of the United States Caribbean Defense Command. Research into this topic involved combing through the Archives of the United States Southern Command in its offices in Miami, Florida (SOUTHCOM Archives), as well as the CDC archives in Record Group 548 in the U.S. National Archives II in Suitland, Maryland. Secondary sources as well as references regarding treaties and international agreements were also consulted as necessary. United States Caribbean Defense Command U.S. Southern Command Combatant Command SOUTHCOM Caribbean Command CARIBCOM World War II Submarines CDC Latin America Panama Canal Zone South America Central America Ecuador Galapagos Peru Colombia Trinidad Puerto Rico Cuba Crittenberger George Brett Coastal Defense Diplomatic History Latin American History Military History Political History United States History

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