The devil and Mr. Casement
Subtitle: one man's battle for human rights in South America's heart of darkness
By: Jordan Goodman.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780374138400
Subjects: Casement, Roger, -- Sir, -- 1864-1916; Peruvian Amazon Company -- History; 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; Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century; Consuls -- Great Britain -- Biography; Irish -- Great Britain -- Biography; Putumayo River Valley -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: La selva comes to London; title: Across the Andes; title: Iquitos and rubber; title: Arana's world; title: Saldaña Rocca's world; title: Over to the Foreign Office; title: An officer and a gentleman; title: Our man in the Putumayo; title: Eyes of another race; title: The uttermost parts of the Earth; title: La Chorrera; title: God forsaken hell-haunted wilds; title: A system of armed extortion; title: Deus ex machina; title: The veil over the Putumayo mystery; title: Publish and be damned; title: An international scandal; title: The old gang; title: The canon and the board; title: La selva returns to Parliament; title: The Peruvian, the American, and the Select Committee; title: The devil and Mr. Casement; title: Epilogue; title: Dramatis personae.