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  • US Imperialism
    James Petras
    This book offers a broader and deeper examination of the dynamics of U. S. Imperialism than previous books. Petras analyzes imperialism not only as economic domination, showing that its impact in the world takes many forms, including cultural, political, and historical. ...
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    77,31 €

  • Imperialism and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century
    Henry Veltmeyer / Humberto Márquez / James Petras
    We live in a time of dynamic, but generally regressive regime change - a period in which major political transformations and a rollback of a half-century of legislation are accelerated under conditions of a prolonged and deepening economic crisis and a worldwide offensive against the citizenry and the working class. Written by two of the world’s leading left-wing thinkers, Impe...
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    88,09 €

  • The New Extractivism
    Henry Veltmeyer / James Petras
    In a primary commodities boom spurred on by the rise of China, countries the world over are turning to the extraction of natural resources and the export of primary commodities as an antidote to the global recession. The New Extractivism addresses a fundamental dilemma faced by these governments: to pursue, or not, a development strategy based on resource extraction in the face...
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    41,60 €

  • Cardoso’s Brazil
    Henry Veltmeyer / James FPetras / James Petras
    Offering a systematic, critical analysis of the presidency of Fernando Cardoso, this ambitious case study assesses government policies within the framework of the ’new economic model’ of globalization and structural adjustment. Petras and Veltmeyer argue that Cardoso paved the way for what amounted to the takeover of a large and important part of Brazil’s economy by foreign inv...
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    58,21 €

  • Globalization Unmasked
    Henry Veltmeyer / James F. Petras
    Globalization is the mantra of our times. Business executives, politicians, and intellectuals all seem to agree that it just happened, and that we must adapt to it. In this new book, the entire globalization project is subjected to a powerful blast from the left. James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer contend that globalization is not new-capitalism over the past 100 years has experi...
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    61,94 €

  • The Left Strikes Back
    James Petras
    This book is about the opposition to neoliberalism—a significant political movement that has influence, particularly among the popular classes. It analyzes the emergence of a new Left in Latin America grounded in the new social forces in the countryside and in the urban slums. ...
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    21,92 €

  • Empire or Republic?
    James Petras / Morris Morley
    Empire or Republic? makes the necessary, but much overlooked, link between our nation’s international policies and the domestic situation. The authors contend that the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations have all focused on global leadership to the detriment of pressing social, economic and political problems at home. ...
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    91,09 €

  • Peasants in Revolt
    James Petras
    Based on extended interviews at the Culiprán fundo in Chile with peasants who recount in their own terms their political evolution, this is an in-depth study of peasants in social and political action. It deals with two basic themes: first, the authoritarian structure within a traditional latifundio and its eventual replacement by a peasant-based elected committee, and second, ...
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    26,97 €