Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Galeano, Eduardo

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9789508950949: Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina (Spanish Edition)

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ISBN 10: 9508950943 ISBN 13: 9789508950949

Publisher: SANTA FE BOOKS^, 2001

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Las Venas Abiertas de Am�rica Latina por Eduardo H. Galeano

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Book Description:

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.
Press reviews:
“This book is a monument in our Latin American history. It allows us to learn history, and we have to build on this history.”

— Hugo Ch�vez, as reported by the BBC

“A superbly written, excellently translated, and powerfully persuasive expose which all students of Latin American and U.S. history must read.”

— CHOICE, American Library Association

“I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Galeano’s vision is unswerving, surgical and yet immensely generous and humane. This book, written more than thirty years ago, contains profound lessons for contemporary India. Eduardo Galeano ought to be a household name in this country.”

— Arundhati Roy
"Una bomba literaria que muy probablemente Obama no ha le�do, pero que -seamos justos- en efecto tendr�a que leer...Imaginemos la escena: acomodado en su asiento del Air Force One rumbo a Washington, Obama toma el libro que le obsequi� Ch�vez y, m�s por aburrimiento que por curiosidad, lo hojea al desgaire, lee un par de p�rrafos y, como le ha ocurrido a miles, queda atrapado por la un tanto enga�osa pero siempre inquietante narraci�n de Galeano. Alguien tan sensible a las humillaciones sufridas por los afroamericanos podr�a descubrir en sus p�ginas m�s de una coincidencia con su educaci�n radical, y sin duda le ayudar�a a comprender mejor a quienes desconf�an de Estados Unidos, incluso de esa parte de Estados Unidos que, escapando a los prejuicios, le permiti� convertirse en presidente."

- Jorge Volpi, "El Pa�s", Spain
"Este libro supera todo lo que yo jam�s he le�do sobre el tema, y permanecer� a lo largo de los a�os venideros. Una obra maestra. "

- Carleton Beals, "Monthly Review", USA.

"Este reportaje-ensayo-mural-obra de artesan�a admirable ensambla g�neros que andaban dispersos: la historia econ�mica, el relato vital.. "
- Hugo Neira, "Expreso", Per�.

"El mejor libro sobre nuestro maltratado continente."

- Hern�n Invernizzi, "El Cronista Comercial",Argentina.

"Bienvenida sea esta historia de Am�rica Latina que recoge los hechos, tiene profundidad te�rica y es sumamente legible. Un excelente trabajo. "
- Peter Roman, "Science and Society", USA.

"Este libro de Galeano es absolutamente imprescindible para todos los interesados en Am�rica Latina.

- "Deutsche Volkszeitung", Alemania Federal.

"Una contribuci�n muy importante a la comprensi�n del pasado que alimenta un presente ambiguo e incierto. "

- Marcel Niedergang, "Le Monde", Francia.

"Un gran escritor y una gran obra, que hoy me parece m�s actual y necesaria que cuando apareci�. "

- Jean Ziegler, "Afrique-Asie", Francia.

About the Author:

Economista bogotano, en los ultimos anos Libardo Torres ha estado vinculado al mundo editorial. Fue dubdirector de Divulgacion Cultural de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, y director y conferencista de la Escuela del Libro (Ecoe Ediciones). Ha sido coordinador editorial de publicaciones de historia, filosofia y sociologia en diferentes universidades y editoriales. Ha escrito ensayos sobre economia politica, modernidad, cultura y pensamiento marxista.

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