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Open Veins of Latin America : Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Open Veins of Latin America : Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

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by 
Eduardo Galeano, Isabel Allende (Foreword by), Isabel Allende (Foreword by)

Tracing five centuries of exploitation in Latin America, a classic in the field, now in its twenty fifth year

Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.

Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe.
  • History / Latin America
  • 360 pages
  • 9 in H | 6 in W | 1.1 lb Wt
  • Trade Paperback
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