The devil and Mr. Casement : one man's battle for human rights in South America's heart of darkness / Jordan Goodman.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Goodman, Jordan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Peruvian Amazon Company.
• Irish.
• Consuls.
• Imperialism--Social aspects.
• History.
• Imperialism.
• Atrocities.
• Rubber industry workers.
• Indians of South America.
• Human rights.
• Putumayo River Valley--Race relations--History--20th century.
• Peru--History--20th century.
• Peru.
• Casement, Roger, 1864-1916.
• Human rights--Putumayo River Valley--History--20th century.
• Indians of South America--Violence against--Putumayo River Valley--History--20th century.
• Rubber industry workers--Putumayo River Valley--History--20th century.
• Atrocities--Putumayo River Valley--History--20th century.
• Peruvian Amazon Company--History.
• Imperialism--Social aspects--Putumayo River Valley--History--20th century.
• Consuls--Great Britain--Biography.
• Irish--Great Britain--Biography.
• Great Britain.

Genre:

• Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.

Contents:

• Introduction: La selva comes to London
• Across the Andes
• Iquitos and rubber
• Arana's world
• Saldaña Rocca's world
• Over to the Foreign Office
• An officer and a gentleman
• Our man in the Putumayo
• Eyes of another race
• The uttermost parts of the Earth
• La Chorrera
• Godforsaken hell-haunted wilds
• A system of armed extortion
• Deus ex machina
• The veil over the Putumayo mystery
• Publish and be damned
• An international scandal
• The old gang
• The canon and the board
• La selva returns to Parliament
• The Peruvian, the American, and the Select Committee
• The devil and Mr. Casement
• Epilogue : a crime against humanity
• Dramatis personae and chronology.

Notes:

• "Originally published, in slightly different form, in 2009 by Verso Books, Great Britain"--T.p. verso.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-302) and index.

ISBN:

• 9780374138400
• 0374138400

OCLC:

428823344