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Human rights, Race relations, Rubber industry workers, Indians of South America, Irish, Peruvian Amazon Company, Consuls, Imperialism, Violence against, Atrocities, Biography, History, Social aspects of Imperialism, Violence against Indians of South America, Biographies, Human rights, south america, Indians of south america, history, Rubber industry and trade, Casement, roger, sir, 1864-1916, Irish, foreign countries, Arana, julio cesar, 1854-1952People
Roger Casement (1864-1916)Places
Great Britain, Putumayo River Valley, PeruTimes
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The devil and Mr. Casement: one man's battle for human rights in South America's heart of darkness
2010, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
- 1st American ed.
0374138400 9780374138400
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Table of 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.
Edition Notes
"Originally published, in slightly different form, in 2009 by Verso Books, Great Britain"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-302) and index.
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