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."
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