Open veins of Latin America : five centuries of the pillage of a continent /

[In this book, the author's] analysis of the effects and causes of capitalist underdevelopment in Latin America present [an] account of ... Latin American history. [The author] shows how foreign companies reaped huge profits through their operations in Latin America. He explains the politics of...

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Main Author: Galeano, Eduardo, 1940-2015 (Author)
Other Authors: Belfrage, Cedric, 1904-1990 (Translator), Allende, Isabel (writer of supplemental textual content.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Spanish
Published: New York : Monthly Review Press, 1997
Edition:25th anniversary edition /
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Mankind's poverty as a consequence of the wealth of the land
  • ch. 1. Lust for gold, lust for silver
  • ch. 2. King sugar and other agricultural monarchs
  • ch. 3. Invisible sources of power
  • pt. 2. Development is a voyage with more shipwrecks than navigators
  • ch. 4. Tales of premature death
  • ch. 5. Contemporary structure of plunder
  • pt. 3. Seven years after.