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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney (2018, Trade Paperback)
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Language: English. Number of Pages: 416. Weight: 1.2 lbs. Publication Date: 2018-11-27. Publisher: VERSO.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherVerso Books
ISBN-101788731182
ISBN-139781788731188
eBay Product ID (ePID)248129875
Product Key Features
Book TitleHow Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
TopicPolitical Economy, Africa / General, History & Theory, Economic Conditions, International Relations / General, Public Policy / Economic Policy
GenrePolitical Science, Business & Economics, History
AuthorWalter Rodney
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight13.6 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2018-021223
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"A masterpiece." --Andy Higginbottom, Redline "Appearing in 1972, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa was a genuine tour de force. It fused, as had never been done in a single volume before, African history in the global sense and underdevelopment theory, Marxism and black nationalism, intellectual passion and political commitment. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa instantly joined a select pan-Africanist canon that would be read at least as much outside as within the academy, an exclusive category that included the two texts that had greatly influenced Rodney's intellectual development, notably James's Black Jacobins and Williams's Capitalism & Slavery , along with Black Reconstruction , W. E. B. Dubois's magisterial work on the struggle for democracy in the United States during the post-Civil War, post-slavery era. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa , however, differed from the above-mentioned works, which were written long after the events they charted occurred. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa , by contrast, was more urgent and immediate, having been produced in the heat of battle, which is to say amid the ongoing struggle of Africans against capitalist and neocolonialist underdevelopment. His purpose in writing the book, Rodney explained in the Preface, was 'to try and reach Africans who wish to explore further the nature of their exploitation, rather than to satisfy the 'standards' set by our oppressors and their spokesmen in the academic world." --Michael West, Groundings
Dewey Decimal330.96
SynopsisThe classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa , Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the abiding repercussions of European colonialism on the continent of Africa has not only informed decades of scholarship and activism, it remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.
LC Classification NumberHC800.R62 2018
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- Mar 28, 2025
Book is in great condition, happy to put...
Book is in great condition, happy to put it on my shelfVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Feb 10, 2019
Good book with a lot of information.
Book explains different phases in African history also exposes some big name companies that have profited off the exploitation off Africa and it's natural resources.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
