Path of empire : Panama and the California Gold Rush /

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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 r...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McGuinness, Aims, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Series:United States in the world.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Americans > Panama > History > 19th century.
Watermelon Riot, Colón, Panama, 1856.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Americans
Diplomatic relations
Gold mines and mining
Goldrausch
Außenpolitik
United States > Foreign relations > Panama.
Panama > Foreign relations > United States.
Panama > History > 19th century.
California > History > 1846-1850.
California > Gold discoveries.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > Panamá.
Panamá > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Californie > Histoire > 1846-1850.
Californie > Découvertes d'or.
California
Panama
Panama > Colón
United States
Kalifornien
USA
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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