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

Title: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent Author: Eduardo Galeano ISBN: 9780853459910 Publisher: Monthly Review Press Published: 1997 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher American History 1623207 Publisher Description: Tracing five centuries of exploitation in Latin America, a classic in the field, now in its twenty fifth year 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 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 centurie