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Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal

By Marixa Lasso (NHC Fellow, 2013–14) The Panama Canal set a new course for the modern development of Central America. Cutting a convenient path from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, it hastened the currents of trade and migration that were already reshaping the Western hemisphere. Yet the waterway was built at considerable cost to … Continued

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La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile’s Frontier Territory

By Thomas Miller Klubock (NHC Fellow, 2005–06) In La Frontera, Thomas Miller Klubock offers a pioneering social and environmental history of southern Chile, exploring the origins of today’s forestry "miracle" in Chile. Although Chile's forestry boom is often attributed to the free-market policies of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Frontera shows that forestry development began in the early twentieth … Continued

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Peasant Scenes and Landscapes: The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market

By Larry Silver (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) Modern viewers take for granted the pictorial conventions present in easel paintings and engraved prints of such subjects as landscapes or peasants. These generic subjects and their representational conventions, however, have their own origins and early histories. In sixteenth-century Antwerp, painting and the emerging new medium of engraving began … Continued