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Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years 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.
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Economic conditions, History, Nonfiction, Sociology, Spanish language books, Social conditions, Historia, Condiciones sociales, Internationale handel, Economische aspecten, Economic history, Conditions économiques, Latin America, Latin america, economic conditions, Condiciones económicas, Colonialism, neocolonialism, exploitation, dependency theory, Capitalism, Latin america, foreign relations, Latin america, history, America, history, Histoire, Politique et gouvernement, Ekonomik durumPeople
Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015), Hugo Chávez (1954-2013), Isabel Allende (1942-), Arundhati Roy (1961-), Barack Obama (1961-)Places
Latin America, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Latin AmerikaTimes
15th to 20th century, 1471-1971Showing 7 featured editions. View all 47 editions?
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Las venas abiertas de america latina/ The Open Veins of Latin America
April 30, 2006, Siglo Xxi Ediciones
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in Spanish
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2006, C ʹitlembik Yay♯łnlar♯ł
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Las venas abiertas de America Latina
2005, Siglo XXI Editores
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Las venas abiertas de América Latina
1999, Siglo Veintiuno
in Spanish
- 71a ed.
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
1997, Monthly Review Press
in English
- 25th anniversary ed. / foreword by Isabel Allende.
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Open veins of Latin America: five centuries of the pillage of a continent
1974, Monthly Review Press
in English
- 1st Modern Reader paperback ed.
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Translation of Las venas abiertas de América Latina.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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