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Jessica Lepler is associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire.
""Canal Dreamers promises to recover both the prehistory of a familiar tale--the building of an isthmian canal--and a lost moment in the history of the Americas. Simply put, it is a pleasure to read.""--Nicholas Guyatt, author of Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation ""A preeminent historian of global capitalism, Jessica M. Lepler exposes the first schemes to bisect Panama in this innovative transoceanic and transcontinental history. Canal Dreamers shows how history that never happened can still matter, inviting readers to feel how historical dead ends can still offer hope for our future."" -- Scott A. Sandage, author of Born Losers: A History of Failure in America ""In tracing a dazzlingly wide range of characters and shifting nationalities--Indigenous, European, and American--Jessica M. Lepler reveals the revolutionary optimism and entangled preposterousness of early nineteenth-century ambitions to connect the Atlantic and Pacific through Central America."" -- Kathleen DuVal, author of Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
