Details

Edition

First American edition.

Description

viii, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Note

"Originally published, in slightly different form, in 2009 by Verso Books, Great Britain"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-302) and index.

Contents

Introduction: 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 -- Dramatis personae and chronology.

Subject

Peruvian Amazon Company -- History.

Consuls -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Atrocities -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century.

Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century.

Peru -- History -- 20th century.

Irish -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Human rights -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century.

Rubber industry workers -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century.

Putumayo River Valley -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.

Indigenous peoples -- South America -- Violence against -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century.

Casement, Roger, 1864-1916.

ISBN

9780374138400 hardcover

0374138400 hardcover