Open veins of Latin America : five centuries of the pillage of a continent /
Eduardo Galeano
- 25th anniversary ed. /
- New York : Monthly Review Press, c1997
- xiii, 317 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I : Mankind's poverty as a consequence of the wealth of the land -- Part II : Development is a voyage with more shipwrecks than navigators -- Part III : Seven years after
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.