Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Spanish: Las venas abiertas de América Latina) is a 1971 book written by Uruguayan journalist, writer, and poet Eduardo Galeano that analyzes the impacts of European settlement, imperialism, and slavery on Latin America. The book was published …
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Spanish: Las venas abiertas de América Latina) is a 1971 book written by Uruguayan journalist, writer, and poet Eduardo Galeano that analyzes the impacts of European settlement, imperialism, and slavery on Latin America. The book was published during the ideological divide caused by the Cold War, when most Latin American countries had brutal, United States-sponsored right-wing dictatorships. Open Veins was banned in several countries and became a reference for an entire generation of left-wing thinkers. In the book, Galeano analyzes the history of the Americas as a whole, from the time period of the European settlement of the New World to contemporary Latin America, describing the effects of European and later United States economic exploitation and political dominance over the region. Throughout the book, Galeano analyses notions of colonialism, imperialism, and the dependency theory. Open Veins illustrates Latin America's resistance literature of the twentieth century, characterized by opposition to imperialism and a heightened Pan-American sentiment. The book has sold over a million copies and been translated into over a dozen languages. It has been included in university courses "ranging from history and anthropology to economics and geography."
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The Open Veins of Latin America
336 pages
English language
Published 2009
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- 978-1-84668-742-6Copied ISBN!
Las venas abiertas de América Latina
379 pages
Spanish language
Published Jan. 1, 2003
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- 978-950-895-094-9Copied ISBN!
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- 458366
Las venas abiertas de América Latina
535 pages
Spanish language
Published 1971
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- 978-84-323-1605-0Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 11041965
Les veines ouvertes de l'amerique latine
447 pages
French language
Published Nov. 12, 2001 by Presses Pocket.
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- 978-2-266-12088-3Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 864233
Open Veins of Latin America
English language
Published 1997 by Monthly Review Press.
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- 978-0-85345-991-0Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 1292835
Open veins of Latin America : five centuries of the pillage of a continent
English language
Published 1997
- ISBN:
- 978-1-58367-311-9Copied ISBN!
Las venas abiertas de América Latina
486 pages
Spanish language
Published 2000
- ISBN:
- 978-84-323-0385-2Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 6115119
Las venas abiertas de América Latina
352 pages
Spanish language
Published 2021 by Siglo XXI.
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- 978-987-801-067-0Copied ISBN!
Las venas abiertas de América Latina
470 pages
Spanish language
Published June 1, 1994 by Siglo XXI.
- ISBN:
- 978-968-23-1900-6Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 964057
Die offenen Adern Lateinamerikas : die Geschichte eines Kontinents von der Entdeckung bis zur Gegenwart
German language
Published 1980 by Peter Hammer Verlag.
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- 978-3-87294-162-6Copied ISBN!
Las venas abiertas de América Latina
Spanish language
Published 2009
- ISBN:
- 978-84-323-1145-1Copied ISBN!
Le vene aperte dell'America Latina
Italian language
Published Oct. 13, 2021
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- 978-88-6998-279-8Copied ISBN!
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