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024 7 _a10.7591/9781501707346
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501707346
035 _a(DE-B1597)527337
035 _a(OCoLC)961456942
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
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050 4 _aE183
072 7 _aHIS036040
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082 0 4 _a327.730728709/034
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMcGuinness, Aims
_eautore
245 1 0 _aPath of Empire :
_bPanama and the California Gold Rush /
_cAims McGuinness.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2016]
264 4 _c©2016
300 _a1 online resource (264 p.) :
_b7 halftones, 1 table, 6 maps
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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_2rda
490 0 _aThe United States in the World
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tPrelude:April 15, 1856 --
_tIntroduction: In the Archive of Loose Leaves --
_tChapter 1. California in Panama --
_tChapter 2. The Panama Railroad and the Conquest of the Gold Rush --
_tChapter 3. Sovereignty on the Isthmus --
_tChapter 4.“We Are Not in the United States Here” --
_tChapter 5.U.S. Empire and the Boundaries of Latin America --
_tConclusion: Conversations in the Museum of History --
_tCoda:With Dust in Our Eyes --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
_2star
520 _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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aAmericans
_zPanama
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aWatermelon Riot, Colón, Panama, 1856.
650 4 _aLatin American & Caribbean Studies.
650 4 _aPolitical Science & Political History.
650 4 _aU.S. History.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501707346
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501707346
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