Path of empire : Panama and the California Gold Rush / Aims McGuinness.
Series: The United States in the world | United States in the worldPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.Description: xiii, 249 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780801445217
- 0801445213
- 0801475384
- 9780801475382
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Panama
- Panama -- Foreign relations -- United States
- Americans -- Panama -- History -- 19th century
- Watermelon Riot, Col on, Panama, 1856
- Panama -- History -- 19th century
- California -- History -- 1846-1850
- California -- Gold discoveries
- Americans
- Gold mines and mining
- Diplomatic relations
- California
- Panama
- Panama -- Col on
- United States
- Goldrausch
- Kalifornien
- Panama
- Au enpolitik
- Goldrausch
- USA
- 1800-1899
- 327.730728709/034 22
- E183.8.P2 M36 2008
- IQ 29020
- NP 6270
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index.
Prelude : 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.
Tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California by way of Panama during the California Gold Rush. McGuinness presents an understanding of the intertwined histories of the California Gold Rush, the course of U.S. empire, and anti-imperialist politics in Latin America. [from publisher description].
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