TY - BOOK AU - Galeano, Eduardo, TI - Open veins of Latin America: five centuries of the pillage of a continent SN - 9780853459910 AV - HC 125 .G25 1997 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - Monthly Review Press KW - LATIN AMERICA N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -