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Open veins of Latin America : five centuries of the pillage of a continent /

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 accumulatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Galeano, Eduardo
Corporate Author: Australian National University. Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Spanish
Published: Haryana : Three Essays Collective c2016..
Edition:25th anniversary ed. /
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Mankind's poverty as a consequence of the wealth of the land.: ch. 1. Lust for gold, lust for silver
  • ch. 2. King sugar and other agricultural monarchs
  • ch. 3. Invisible sources of power
  • pt. 2. Development is a voyage with more shipwrecks than navigators.: ch. 4. Tales of premature death
  • ch. 5. Contemporary structure of plunder
  • pt. 3. Seven years after.