TY - BOOK ID - 30963948 TI - Path of Empire : Panama and the California Gold Rush PY - 2008 SN - 1501707337 0801475384 0801445213 1501707345 9781501707346 9780801445217 9780801475382 9781501707339 PB - Ithaca : Baltimore, Md. : Cornell University Press, Project MUSE, DB - UniCat KW - Americans KW - Watermelon Riot, Colón, Panama, 1856. KW - Incidente de la Tajada de Sandía, Colón, Panama, 1856 KW - Panama Massacre, Colón, Panama, 1856 KW - Panama Riot, Colón, Panama, 1856 KW - Watermelon War, Colón, Panama, 1856 KW - Riots KW - Yankees KW - Ethnology KW - History KW - United States KW - Panama KW - California KW - República de Panamá KW - Panama (Audiencia) KW - Audiencia de Panamá KW - Tierra Firme KW - Audiencia de Panamá del Nuevo Reino de Tierra Firme KW - Real Audiencia de Panamá KW - Estado Federal de Panamá KW - Republic of Panama KW - Foreign relations KW - Gold discoveries. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30963948 AB - Most 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. ER -