Open veins of Latin America five centuries of the pillage of a continent
- New York Monthly Review Press 1997
- xiii, 317 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-305) and index.
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.