SquareTrade (c) AP6.0 A FINANCIAL HISTORY OF THE PANAMA RAILROAD COMPANY, 1849-1949 An Untold Case Study Which Should be Taught in All Business and Management Universities A 193 page case study of A Brief Financial History of the Panama Railroad Company, 1849-1949 is supported by 62 charts, images, maps, and a Bibliography detailing how: John Lloyd Stephens of Maya archaeological fame, in 1848, out-maneuvered French interests from obtaining a concession, from New Granada, to build the Panama Railroad, Completion of the Panama Railroad across the Isthmus of Panama contributed to the early statehood of California, fulfilled the Manifest Destiny of the United States of America, and transformed her into a world power. The Panama Railroad Company Became the Richest Railroad Operation in History on Three Occasions, The Panama Railroad Company was Brought to Near Bankruptcy Five Times by Five Different Transcontinental Competitors, The Panama Railroad Company, a Commercial Empire Rivaling the British East India Company in Scope and Power, Dominated the Isthmus of Panama for over 100 years, French commercial interests, under the directorship of the builder of the Suez Canal, Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, defied the Monroe Doctrine to actually begin building the Panama Canal and subsequently purchase the Panama Railroad Company, in 1881, as a necessity to complete the Canal. The Panama Railroad Company employees participated in the creation of the Republic of Panama on November, 1903. Prominent personages who enter this story are: Balboa, William Henry Aspinwall, Alexander J. Center, Sam Ward, S. L. M. Barlow, Joseph Edward Simmons, Henry Chauncey, Charles G. Franklyn, Alden B. Stockwell, Charles Biddle, Columbus, John Lloyd Stephens; George M. Totten, Trenor W. Park, Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps, John Grimes Walker, Henry Clews, William C. Young, Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt, John Willis Griffiths, Joseph F. Joy, David C. Hoadley, Manuel Amador, Mark Brooke, Philander C. Knox, John Newton, Joseph L. Bristow, Tracy Robinson, John G. McCullough, James Campbell, Russell Sage, Salmon Portland Chase, Thomas William Ludlow, Falmark and Peacock surveys, William Nelson Cromwell, Cornelius Vanderbilt, William Howard Taft, George Washington Goethals, Baring brothers, George "Live Oak" Law, Armand Reclus, Wyse, William Crawford Gorgas. Subject matters discussed at length are: railroads, gold, malaria and yellow fever, Panama Canal, Taboga, Vermont, Pennsylvania Railroad, New Granada, Corps of Engineers, Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Wall Street, New York Stock Exchange, Pacific Steam and Navigation Company, Monroe Doctrine, Isthmian Canal Commission, West Point, Annapolis, John Grimes Walker, merchant marine, steam and clipper ships, Rainbow and Sea Witch, Suez Canal, England, Colombia, Mexico, Spanish Conquistador, Harvard College, Colombia College, geopolitics, Promontory Point, Utah, Central American Steamship Line, Nicaragua, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, U. S. Army, Navy, and Marines, State and Treasury Departments, Central and South America, Farmer's Loan and Trust Company, United States Trust Company, Cape Horn, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Caribbean Sea, Chagres River, Christ Episcopal Church Porto Bello and Las Cruces Trails, Latin America, California, Oregon, New York, Peru, law and legal matters, civil and railroad engineering, Sullivan, Cromwell, Bidlack Mallarino Treaty, Hay Bunau Varilla Treaty, U.S. Senate, House of Representatives. This is a case study that should be introduced in every high school and college level history, business administration, and political science class and be used as a case study by every business and law university in our Nation and abroad. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Jun-07-09 at 09:00:37 PDT, seller added the following information: