Century of the wind

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  • Alternate Title:

    Memory of fire

    Author: Galeano, Eduardo
    Contributor:

    Belfrage, Cedric

    Summary:

    Dizzying, enraging, and beautifully written, the third volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, CENTURY OF THE WIND serves up the turbulent 20th century's worth of U.S.-Latin American relations, from the bucolic New Jersey laboratory of Thomas Alva Edison to the armies of Emiliano Zapata and Fidel Castro to the Reagan-era CIA "neutralizations" in the forests of Central America.

    Contents:
    • pt. 1. Genesis
    • pt. 2. Faces and masks
    • pt. 3. Century of the wind.
    Genre: History and geography
    Original Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 1998, c1988
    Language(s): English

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Belfrage, Cedric

Abstract

Dizzying, enraging, and beautifully written, the third volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, CENTURY OF THE WIND serves up the turbulent 20th century's worth of U.S.-Latin American relations, from the bucolic New Jersey laboratory of Thomas Alva Edison to the armies of Emiliano Zapata and Fidel Castro to the Reagan-era CIA "neutralizations" in the forests of Central America.

Genre
History
Publisher (Source)

New York : W.W. Norton, 1998, c1988

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ISBN

9780393318074

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