The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness
Jordan Goodman$20.39
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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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 02/01/2011
ISBN: 9780312680589
Pages: 322
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.00d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 02/20/2011 pg. 24