Book · 2003 · Political Science
Emperors in the Jungle
The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama
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It was really a fantastic book that served as my main resource for this research.
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This was a rough read.
That book has a very good passage on how Gorgus and his fellow doctors blamed the black Caribbeans that they were bringing into Panama for the fact that their disease control measures failed.
A wonderful book titled Emperors in the Jungle about the United States relationship with Panama.
Describes it as the transformation of the canal zone to make it biologically safe for white men.
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Emperors in the Jungle by John Lindsay-Poland is a historical account examining United States involvement, interventions, and environmental impacts in Panama. Andrew introduced the book on Behind the Bastards as a fantastic resource and the main reference for their research on US actions in Panama. Robert Evans repeatedly cited the work across multiple episodes, using it to detail the sanitation department's poisoning and destruction of local environments, as well as the perspective that tropical climates were suitable for white settlement. Evans also read passages from the book showing how US doctors blamed Black Caribbean workers for failed disease-control measures, and he used the text to connect US drug-war narratives to Noriega. Additionally, Evans drew upon the book to contrast the bombing of impoverished communities like San Miguel with the protection of wealthy high-rises during the invasion, and to recount Abraham Lincoln's proposal to relocate freed Black Americans to Panama to work in coal mines.
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Robert Evans This was a rough read. That book, Emperors in the Jungle, is a the tropics for white people were not seen a… 9
“And I'm going to quote here from emperors in the jungle. Much of the sanitary department's efforts focused on the non-human world by cutting down and poisoning the environment in which insects and rodents lived.”
“This was a rough read. That book, Emperors in the Jungle, is a the tropics for white people were not seen as a reason to avoid colonizing tropical climates by everyone, at least.”
“So uh I'm going to quote from Emperors in the Jungle because that book has a very good passage on how Gorgus and his fellow doctors blamed the black Caribbeans that they were bringing into Panama for the fact that their disease control measures failed.”
“And I'm going to quote from Emperor in the Jungle about how this all gets tied to Noriega. The article was focused on that country in our midst, but not a part of us and distinct from people of normal human appetites.”
“Um I'm going to quote again from Emperors in the Jungle. The impoverished community of San Miguel was also bombed across the town at Punta Patila. Wealthy Panameanians watched the invasion from their condominiums and expensive highrises.”
“And I'm going to quote now from a wonderful book titled Emperors in the Jungle about the United States uh relationship with Panama. The company imported workers from China, Ireland, and elsewhere for the job.”
“And I'm going to quote again from Emperors in the Jungle by John Lindseay Poland. Coal mines, he told a room full of free blacks in in August 1862, will afford an opportunity to the inhabitants for immediate employment till they get ready to settle permanently in their homes.”
“US naval strategist Alfred Mayan was one of the first to suggest building a canal in or in order to make it easier to people the US West Coast with white Europeans from John Lindseay Poland. Quote, Maym, who strongly influenced the young Theodore Roosevelt, believed that control of the sea determined the world's struggles for power and had done”
“John Lindseay Poland describes it as the transformation of the canal zone to make it biologically safe for white men. And in part two, Chelsea, that's what we're going to talk about.”
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“Now, all of this and what follows was recounted in Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the US and Panama by John Lindseay Poland, which I picked up from my library, and it was really a fantastic book that served as my main resource for this research.”
