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The devil and Mr. Casement : one man's battle for human rights in South America's heart of darkness / Jordan Goodman.
Van Pelt Library F3451.P94 G66 2010
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- 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.
- Putumayo River Valley.
- Peru--History--20th century.
- Peru.
- Casement, Roger, 1864-1916.
- Casement, Roger.
- 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
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