Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Author
Eduardo Galeano
Original title
Las venas abiertas de América Latina
Translator
Cedric Belfrage
Country
Uruguay
Language
Spanish
Subject
History of Latin America
Publisher
Monthly Review Press
Publication date
1971
Published in English
1973 (1st edition) 1997 (25th anniv. edition)
Media type
Print
Pages
xiii, 317 p.
ISBN
978-0-85345-990-3
OCLC
37820142
Dewey Decimal
330.98 21
LC Class
HC125 .G25313 1997
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (in Spanish: Las venas abiertas de América Latina) is a book written by Uruguayan journalist, writer, and poet Eduardo Galeano, published in 1971, that consists of an analysis of the impact that European settlement, imperialism, and slavery have had in Latin America.
The book was published during the ideological divide caused by the Cold War, when most of Latin American countries had brutal, right-wing dictatorships.[1]Open Veins was banned in several countries and quickly became a reference for an entire generation of left-wing thinkers.[2]
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.[3]
Open Veins illustrates Latin America's resistance literature of the twentieth century, characterized by opposition to imperialism and a heightened Pan-American sentiment.[4] 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."[5]
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