Description
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.
Author: Jordan Goodman
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 02/01/2011
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780312680589
ISBN10: 0312680589
BISAC Categories:
- History | Latin America | South America
- History | Europe | Great Britain | General
- Business & Economics | Corporate & Business History | General
About the Author
JORDAN GOODMAN has been a professional historian for thirty years and is Honorary Research Associate at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College, London. His last book was The Rattlesnake (Faber, 2005).
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