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Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U. S. in Panama. By John Lindsay-Poland. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. x + 265 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Paper $18.95.
Readers with a general knowledge of Latin American history will be quite familiar with much of Lindsay-Poland's findings in Emperors in the Jungle. Most no doubt will know of the proposal for constructing a sea-level canal through the detonation of hundreds of nuclear bombs, though the details of "Project Plowshare" do provide a vivid reminder of the Cold War era. They might, however, learn for the first time of the extensive chemical-weapons testing program in the Canal Zone after the Second World War and the successful methods employed by the United States to avoid the de-contamination of the Zone prior to its withdrawal in 1999. . . .
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