A major topic of debate is whether the United States had the ethical right to decide to build the canal. At the time, Panama was part of Colombian territory, meaning the U.S. had to gain permission to build there. Resultantly, the Colombian Congress initially refused the U.S. the rights to construct the Panama Canal in Continue Reading
Some of the largest and most well-known British environmental conservation movements exist in one of two camps. Both of these stem – remarkably unchanged – from before the industrial revolution. The first camp is entirely practical. By the late seventeenth century, England had seen a century of political upheaval and civil war, and was a Continue Reading
environmental policy – Manchester Historian
August 14, 2025 by maximios • History
A major topic of debate is whether the United States had the ethical right to decide to build the canal. At the time, Panama was part of Colombian territory, meaning the U.S. had to gain permission to build there. Resultantly, the Colombian Congress initially refused the U.S. the rights to construct the Panama Canal in Continue Reading
Some of the largest and most well-known British environmental conservation movements exist in one of two camps. Both of these stem – remarkably unchanged – from before the industrial revolution. The first camp is entirely practical. By the late seventeenth century, England had seen a century of political upheaval and civil war, and was a Continue Reading