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An ordinary person's guide to empire /

Review: "Arundhati Roy draws the thread of empire through ostensibly disconnected arenas, highlighting in this book the parallels between the poverty draft in the United States, caste politics in India, AIDS in South Africa, reconstruction contracts in Iraq, and the perverse machinery of mass m...

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Autor principal: Roy, Arundhati
Formato: Printed Book
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New Delhi : Penguin, 2006.
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