| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama. By John Lindsay-Poland. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. xii, 265 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-8223-3100-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8223-3098-9.)

Anyone desiring a careful examination of the hubris of American empire could do no better than to read John Lindsay-Poland's Emperors in the Jungle. This fascinating work of history and investigative journalism traces how ideas about the technological and racial superiority of the United States generated more than a century of military experiments and intervention in Panama. It also argues that the United States "sacrificed regard for Panama's people, its tropical environment, and, often, the empire's own soldiers" in the name of achieving its own strategic goals (p. 3). Rather than providing a complete history of U.S. involvement in Panama from either a diplomatic or a military perspective, this book examines several detailed case studies, drawing mostly from the second half of the twentieth century.

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