The devil and Mr. Casement : one man's battle for human rights in South America's heart of darkness
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Edition
First American edition
Physical Description
viii, 322 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
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Northwest College - Hinckley Library - Second Floor | 305.8989 C377G | On Shelf |
Subjects
Library of Congress Subjects
Atrocities -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century.
Casement, Roger, -- 1864-1916.
Consuls -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Human rights -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century.
Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century.
Indians of South America -- Violence against -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century.
Irish -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Peru -- History -- 20th century.
Peruvian Amazon Company -- History.
Putumayo River Valley -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Rubber industry workers -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century.
Casement, Roger, -- 1864-1916.
Consuls -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Human rights -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century.
Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century.
Indians of South America -- Violence against -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century.
Irish -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Peru -- History -- 20th century.
Peruvian Amazon Company -- History.
Putumayo River Valley -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Rubber industry workers -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century.
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Format
Book
Edition
First American edition
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"Originally published, in slightly different form, in 2009 by Verso Books, Great Britain"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-302) and index.
Summary
"In September 1910, the activist Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon jungle on a mission for the British government: to investigate reports of widespread human rights abuses in the forests along the Putumayo River. Accusations against the Peruvian rubber baron Julio César Arana had been making their way back to London, and the rumors were on everybody's lips: Arana was enslaving, torturing, and murdering the local Indians. Arana's Peruvian Amazon Company, with its headquarters in London's financial heart, was responsible. Casement was outraged by what he uncovered: nearly thirty thousand Indians had died to produce four thousand tons of rubber. When Casement's seven-hundred-page report of the Putumayo violence was published in London in 1912, it set off reverberations throughout the world. People were appalled that murderous acts were being carried out in the name of profit, all under the cloak of British respectability and fairness. The Peruvian Amazon Company was forced into liquidation, and its board of directors, including an aristocrat with ties to the royal family, was publicly shamed." -- dust jacket.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Goodman, J. (2010). The devil and Mr. Casement: one man's battle for human rights in South America's heart of darkness (First American edition). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Goodman, Jordan. 2010. The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Goodman, Jordan. The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Goodman, Jordan. The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness First American edition, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
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