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Author Goodman, Jordan.

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

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
2009.

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Location Call No. Status
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  305.8989 GO    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description viii, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Note "Originally published, in slightly different form, in 2009 by Verso Books, Great Britain"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-302) and index.
Contents Introduction: La selva comes to London -- Across the Andes -- Iquitos and rubber -- Arana's world -- SaldaƱa 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.
Subject Peruvian Amazon Company -- History.
Consuls -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Atrocities -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century.
Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century.
Peru -- History -- 20th century.
Indians of South America -- Violence against -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century.
Irish -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Human rights -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century.
Rubber industry workers -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century.
Putumayo River Valley -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- South America -- Violence against -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century.
Subject Casement, Roger, 1864-1916.
ISBN 9780374138400 hardcover
0374138400 hardcover
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