The devil and Mr Casement : one man's struggle for human rights in South America's heart of darkness /: one man's struggle for human rights in South America's heart of darkness. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jordan Goodman.
• Other Names: Goodman, Jordan
• Contents: Prologue : 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Verso
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (328 pages)
• Subjects: 364.15098544; Rubber industry and trade -- Peru -- History -- 20th century; Offenses against the person -- Amazon River Region -- History -- 20th century; Caoutchouc -- Industrie -- Pérou -- Histoire -- 20e siècle; Offenses against the person; Rubber industry and trade; Social conditions; Travel; Kautschukplantage; Menschenrechtsverletzung; Amérindien (peuple) -- atrocités -- caoutchouc -- récolte -- droits de l'homme -- violation -- Amazonie -- 20e s. (début); Indianer -- våld mot -- Putumayo -- 1900-talet; Grymheter -- historia -- Putumayo -- 1900-talet; Raskonflikter -- historia -- Putumayo -- 1900-talet; Mänskliga rättigheter -- historia -- Putumayo -- 1900-talet; Amazon River Region -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Amazon River Region; Peru; Putumayo; Putumayo -- historia -- 1900-talet; History; Travel -- Amazon River Region; historia
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789601060; 1789601061
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