| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Book Review

Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush. By Aims McGuinness. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xiv, 249 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-4521-7.)

In Path of Empire, Aims McGuiness has crafted a well-conceived and painstakingly executed account of Panama in the face of U.S. imperialism. American interest in Panama began with the California gold rush (hence the title). While focusing on the gold rush is a catchy ploy, more profound transisthmian and transportation issues fill these pages and provide the larger context. As far as Americans were concerned, Panama was simply a transit zone, and the efforts of interested parties—Panamanians, travelers, American capitalists—to take advantage of that fact forms the meat of this book. By placing this story in his chosen context, McGuinness illustrates the true breadth of his topic.

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