ISBN: 9780853459903

The classic survey of Latin America's social and cultural history, with a new introduction by Isabel AllendeSince its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new s… Mehr…

The classic survey of Latin America's social and cultural history, with a new introduction by Isabel AllendeSince 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.Weaving fact and imagery into a rich tapestry, Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered and suffering people. An immense gathering of materials is framed with a vigorous style that never falters in its command of themes. All readers interested in great historical, economic, political, and social writing will find a singular analytical achievement, and an overwhelming narrative that makes history speak, unforgettably.This classic is now further honored by Isabel Allende’s inspiring introduction. Universally recognized as one of the most important writers of our time, Allende once again contributes her talents to literature, to political principles, and to enlightenment. Trade Books>Hardcover>World History>The Americas>Latin Amer Hist, Monthly Review Press Core >2<

1997, ISBN: 9780853459903

[ED: Gebunden], [PU: MONTHLY REVIEW PR], Klappentext A superbly written, excellently translated, and powerfully persuasive exposA(c) which all students of Latin American and U.S. history … Mehr…

[ED: Gebunden], [PU: MONTHLY REVIEW PR], Klappentext A superbly written, excellently translated, and powerfully persuasive exposA(c) which all students of Latin American and U.S. history must read. --, DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, Hardcover, 360, [GW: 599g], Anniversary, Banküberweisung, PayPal, [CT: Englischsprachige Bücher / Sonstiges - Englisch]<

ISBN: 9780853459903

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ISBN: 9780853459903

Find Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano in Hardcover - Anniv. Ed. and other formats in Business & Economics > Economic Conditions. Business & Economics 9780853459903, Monthly… Mehr…

Find Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano in Hardcover - Anniv. Ed. and other formats in Business & Economics > Economic Conditions. Business & Economics 9780853459903, Monthly Review Press<

1997, ISBN: 9780853459903

Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Buch, 25th Anniversary ed, [PU: New York University Press], New York University Press, 1997