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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on July 16, 2009
Enterprise and Society 2009 10(3):596-598; doi:10.1093/es/khp026
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Aims McGuinness. Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush

Aims McGuinness. Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. xiii + 249 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4521-7, $35.00 (cloth); 978-0-8014-7538-2, $19.95 (paper)

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On April 15, 1856, in Panama City a drunken American refused to pay a Panamanian melon salesman for a slice of watermelon and cursed him. Each brandished a weapon, and a riot ensued, in which Panamanians attacked Americans traveling by the Panama Railway on their way to California. Fifteen, possibly nineteen, passengers died and 50 were wounded, and one Panamanian is said to have lost his life. This "Tajada de Sandía" incident, as it is known in Panamá, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Frank Safford

Northwestern University


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