Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent [Englisch] [Gebundene Ausgabe]

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 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.

The best book that I have read
I find that not single sample great part of the reality with a great logic sense, of the facts and their consequences in the Latin america, but rather also emblem as the human race could be to be able to live in harmony. The concept of the generosity and of the solidarity it is the big teachings that he leaves, showing the selfishness and the human being arrogance. He has given me a great personal development and it has been able to change my point of view on the sense of the life. My congratulations to the countryman Eduardo Galeano. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .