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Open veins of Latin America : five centuries of the pillage of a continent / Eduardo Galeano ; translated by Cedric Belfrage.
Lippincott Library HC125 .G25313 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Galeano, Eduardo, 1940-2015.
- Standardized Title:
- Venas abiertas de América Latina. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Latin America--Economic conditions.
- Latin America.
- Economic conditions.
- Economic history.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 317 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Twenty-fifth anniversary edition / foreword by Isabel Allende.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Monthly Review Press, [1997]
- Language Note:
- Translation of: Las venas abiertas de América Latina.
- Summary:
- [In this book, the author's] analysis of the effects and causes of capitalist underdevelopment in Latin America present [an] account of ... Latin American history. [The author] shows how foreign companies reaped huge profits through their operations in Latin America. He explains the politics of the Latin American bourgeoisies and their subservience to foreign powers, and how they interacted to create increasingly unequal capitalist societies in Latin America.-Back cover.
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Isabel Allende
- From In defense of the word
- Introduction: 120 million children in the eye of the hurricane
- Part I. Mankind's poverty as a consequence of the wealth of the land.
- Lust for gold, lust for silver
- King sugar and other agricultural monarchs
- The invisible sources of power
- Part II. Development is a voyage with more shipwrecks than navigators.
- Tales of premature death
- The contemporary structure of plunder
- Part III. Seven years after.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-305) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rebecca Pepper Sinkler Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Galeano, Eduardo H., 1940- Venas abiertas de América Latina. English. Open veins of Latin America.
- ISBN:
- 0853459916
- 9780853459910
- 0853459908
- 9780853459903
- OCLC:
- 37820142
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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