Urn:lcp:openveinsoflatin00edua:epub:a99e2262-88e7-4c8e-9fc0-243186bd93f0 Extramarc University of Alberta Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier openveinsoflatin00edua Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4km3cn50 Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780853459910Ġ853459916 Lccn 97044750 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition 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.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:36:18.100773 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA1103201 Boxid_2 CH1154218 City New York Containerid_2 X0008 Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 25th anniversary ed. This classic is now further honored by Isabel Allende's inspiring introduction. 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.

An immense gathering of materials is framed with a vigorous style that never falters in its command of themes. The best single volume on 500 years of exploitation and resistance of Latin Americas 'open veins.' Literary, powerful, unique.

Weaving fact and imagery into a rich tapestry, Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered and suffering people. 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. 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. 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. 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. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America.

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