LEADER 03821oam 22006134a 450 001 9910136711903321 005 20210104035209.0 010 $a1-5017-0733-7 010 $a0-8014-7538-4 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501707346 035 $a(CKB)3710000000906642 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4721160 035 $a(DE-B1597)527337 035 $a(OCoLC)961456942 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501707346 035 $a(OCoLC)960976509 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58305 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000906642 100 $a20070712d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aPath of Empire$ePanama and the California Gold Rush /$fAims McGuinness 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d2008. 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE, $d2021 210 4$dİ2008. 215 $a1 online resource (264 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 0 $aThe United States in the World 311 $a0-8014-4521-3 311 $a1-5017-0734-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [231]-242) and index. 327 $aPrelude : April 15, 1856 -- Introduction : in the archive of loose leaves -- California in Panama -- The Panama railroad and the conquest of the Gold Rush -- Sovereignty on the isthmus -- "We are not in the United States here" -- U.S. empire and the boundaries of Latin America -- Conclusion : conversations in the Museum of History -- Coda : with dust in our eyes. 330 $aMost people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California by way of Panama during the California Gold Rush. Decades before the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, this slender spit of land abruptly became the linchpin of the fastest route between New York City and San Francisco-a route that combined travel by ship to the east coast of Panama, an overland crossing to Panama City, and a final voyage by ship to California. In Path of Empire, Aims McGuinness presents a novel understanding of the intertwined histories of the California Gold Rush, the course of U.S. empire, and anti-imperialist politics in Latin America. Between 1848 and 1856, Panama saw the building, by a U.S. company, of the first transcontinental railroad in world history, the final abolition of slavery, the establishment of universal manhood suffrage, the foundation of an autonomous Panamanian state, and the first of what would become a long list of military interventions by the United States.Using documents found in Panamanian, Colombian, and U.S. archives, McGuinness reveals how U.S. imperial projects in Panama were integral to developments in California and the larger process of U.S. continental expansion. Path of Empire offers a model for the new transnational history by unbinding the gold rush from the confines of U.S. history as traditionally told and narrating that event as the history of Panama, a small place of global importance in the mid-1800s. 410 0$aUnited States in the world. 606 $aWatermelon Riot, Colo?n, Panama, 1856 606 $aAmericans$zPanama$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aCalifornia$xGold discoveries 607 $aCalifornia$xHistory$y1846-1850 607 $aPanama$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aPanama$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zPanama 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWatermelon Riot, Colo?n, Panama, 1856. 615 0$aAmericans$xHistory 676 $a327.730728709/034 700 $aMcGuinness$b Aims$f1968-$01154343 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136711903321 996 $aPath of Empire$92839607 997 $aUNINA