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Title The devil and Mr. Casement : one man's battle for human rights in South America's heart of darkness / Jordan Goodman.
Author Goodman, Jordan.
Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  305.8989 GOO    Check Shelves
Edition 1st American ed.
Description viii, 322 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-302) and index.
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 -- God forsaken 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 -- Dramatis personae and chronology.
Subject Putumayo River Valley -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Peru -- History -- 20th century.
Casement, Roger, Sir, 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.
ISBN 9780374138400 (hardcover) : $30.00
0374138400 (hardcover)
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