Yanqui Politics and the Isthmian Canal

From its inception the Panama Canal has often been the subject of heated international controversy and, in the United States, of bitter political debate. Now, decades after the opening of the canal, a surge of Panamanian nationalism coupled with the pressing need for a new, larger canal have fomented yet another cycle of political crises which have yet to be resolved.

Dr. Ealy's detailed history of the canal, his penetrating analysis of recent U.S.-Panamanian relations, and his projection of the future of interocean canal policy in the Western Hemisphere are based on a chronology of the political themes that run through the long and varied history of the isthmian canal project.