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Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal, written by Olive Senior
New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (2016)
  • Michael L Conniff, San Jose State University
Abstract
A book review of Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal, by Olive Senior. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2014. xxiii + 416 pp. (Paper US$ 40.00)
Keywords
  • foreign workers,
  • Panama Canal,
  • West Indies,
  • West Indians
Publication Date
2016
DOI
10.1163/22134360-09001045
Publisher Statement
This book review originally appeared in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, volume 90, issues 1-2, 2016. It can be found at this link.

© Michael L. Conniff, 2016 | doi: 10.1163/22134360-09001045
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-NC 3.0) License.
Citation Information
Michael L Conniff. "Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal, written by Olive Senior" New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids Vol. 90 Iss. 1-2 (2016) p. 177 - 178 ISSN: 2213-4360
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michael_conniff/28/
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