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

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

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