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Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama

Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama

Lindsay-Poland, John

Paperback

Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions

General World HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0822330989
ISBN13: 9780822330981
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Feb 11 2003
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.26
Language: English
Emperors in the Jungle is an exposé of key episodes in the military involvement of the United States in Panama. Investigative journalism at its best, this book reveals how U.S. ideas about taming tropical jungles and people, combined with commercial and military objectives, shaped more than a century of intervention and environmental engineering in a small, strategically located nation. Whether uncovering the U.S. Army's decades-long program of chemical weapons tests in Panama or recounting the invasion in December 1989 which was the U.S. military's twentieth intervention in Panama since 1856, John Lindsay-Poland vividly portrays the extent and costs of U.S. involvement.

Analyzing new evidence gathered through interviews, archival research, and Freedom of Information Act requests, Lindsay-Poland discloses the hidden history of U.S.-Panama relations, including the human and environmental toll of the massive canal building project from 1904 to 1914. In stunning detail he describes secret chemical weapons tests--of toxins including nerve agent and Agent Orange--as well as plans developed in the 1960s to use nuclear blasts to create a second canal in Panama.

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