The Devil and Mr Casement keyword-structuralism wars have been fought and

wars have been fought and imperfect compromises brokered

the book prompts us to consider Spinoza’s philosophy anew

Edward Baring

the explosion of national identities in former Yugoslavia

but never idealizes them

The Devil and Mr Casement keyword-structuralism wars have been fought andIn September 1910, the human rights activist and anti imperialist Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon to investigate reports of widespread human rights abuses in the vast forests stretching along the Putumayo river. There, the Peruvian entrepreneur Julio Csar Arana ran an area the size of Belgium as his own private fiefdom; his British registered company operated a systematic programme of torture, exploitation and murder. Fresh from documenting the