Emperors in the jungle
Subtitle: the hidden history of the U.S. in Panama
By: John Lindsay-Poland.
Series: American encounters/global interactions
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Durham [N.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: United States -- Foreign relations -- Panama.; Panama -- Foreign relations -- United States.; Panama Canal (Panama)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: A platform for control : interventions and army doctors, 1856-1925; title: "Test tube island"; title: The nuclear canal; title: Playing the drug card; title: The politics of environmental cover-up; title: Market mania; title: Continuity and change in the military's vision; title: Afterword : knowing ourselves : exhortation to read a friendly text / by Guillermo Castro Herrera.