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Open Veins of Latin America
Abstract
The following text is the introduction to Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, published by MR Press in August. In announcing publication we stated that "the author's magnificent achievement in this brilliant text is to have written a history of Latin America since Columbus—but a history which is at the same time a political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of the primary accumulation of capital since Marx." Galeano is the author of Guatemala: Occupied Country and a frequent contributor to MR. The translation is by Cedric Belfrage. - The EditorsThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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- Authors
- Galeano, E., & Belfrage, C.
- Venue
- Monthly Review
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Foundation
- Published
- 1973-09-03
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 28
- ISSN
- 0027-0520 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1965072999
- Cited by
- 536
- References
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- FWCI
- 5.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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