![]() ![]() ![]() 1 Here Karuka unravels the time and place of the nation’s becoming. ![]() ![]() “Americans had assembled at a place they recently christened ‘Promontory Point,’” he writes, “in a territory they claimed to control under the name of Utah” (xi). Manu Karuka begins Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad with a familiar scene in the history of the transcontinental railroad: the ceremonial joining of the two rail lines on the tenth day of May 1869. Courtesy of Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California. Continental Imperialism and the Edges of the Transpacificįigure 1. ![]()
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