Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
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Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America by Andre Gunder Frank
The four essays in this book offer a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin American history as an aspect of the world-wide spread of capitalism in its commercial and industrial phases. Dr. Frank lays to rest the myth of Latin American feudalism, demonstrating in the process the impossibility of a bourgeois revolution in a part of the world which is already part and parcel of the capitalist system.
Andre Gunder Frank received his PhD from the University of Chicago and held professorships at at least five universities including the University of Toronto, where he wrote his major work, ReORIENT. His opus includes some forty books and nearly one thousand articles and other pieces in numerous languages, spanning fifty years of global political and economic development. He is best known as the author of dependency theory and was one of the founders of the World Systems approach. He lived and traveled widely including significant sojourns in Latin America that brought him into the ken of Che Guevara, Allende, and ultimately Pinochet whose bloody coup drove Gunder Frank back to Europe. Throughout the rest of his life, he continued to break new boundaries of research and thought and was still working on this book until two weeks prior to his death in a hospital in Luxembourg on Saturday the 23rd of April, 2005.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780853450931 |
| ISBN 10 | 0853450935 |
| Title | Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America |
| Author | Andre Gunder Frank |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 1967-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 372 |
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