The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness

by Goodman, Jordan
ISBN: 9780312680589
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Overview

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. Casement was outraged by what he uncovered: nearly thirty thousand Indians had died to produce four thousand tons of rubber for Peruvian and British commercial interests, under the brutal rubber baron Julio C sar Arana. In 1912, Casement's seven-hundred-page report of the Putumayo violence set off reverberations throughout the world. Drawing on a wealth of original research, The Devil and Mr. Casement is a haunting story of modern capitalism with enormous contemporary political resonance.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Goodman, Jordan
  • ISBN: 9780312680589
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.60 x 1.00
  • Number Of Pages: 336
  • Publication Year: 2011
Language: English

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