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LATIN AMERICA James Petras, Class, State and Power in the Third World-With Case Studies on Class Conflict in Latin America (Allanheld Osmun & Co., 1981). $19.95, cloth, 285 pgs. Petras comes...
...Zed Press, 57 Caledonian Road, London N1 9DN...
...have in store for us in the next four years...
...48 Robert Brent Toplin, Freedom and Prejudice: The Legacy of Slavery in the United States and Brazil (Greenwood Press, 1981...
...Very useful bibliography on the Brazilian Left...
...95, paper, 35 pges...
...Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305...
...This short historical survey traces two centuries of U.S...
...Offering no visions of the future, Kiernan ends by wondering, as did Lenin and Kautsky before him, whether capitalism is "doomed by its nature to perpetual aggression abroad...
...Case studies on Cuba, Nicaragua and Peru are also included...
...Kraus International Publishers, Route 100, Millwood, NY 10546...
...60, cloth, 455 pgs...
...Separate listings for books and pamphlets, articles, and periodicals...
...W. Richard Jacobs, The Grenada Revolution at Work (Pathfinder Press, 1981...
...UNITED STATES Peter Duignan and Alvin Rabushka, eds., The United States in the 1980s (Hoover Institution Press, 1980...
...Black activist Manuel and Socialist Workers Party 1980 presidential candidate Pulley answer questions about their trips to the island during the revolution's first year...
...22.50, cloth, 292 pgs...
...Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881...
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...Ronald H. Chilcote, ed., Brazil and Its Radical Left-An Annotated Bibliography on the Communist Movement and the Rise of Marxism 1922-1972 (Kraus International Publishers, 1980...
...imperialism from the subjugation of Indians to that of the third world...
...Pathfinder Press...
...Allenheld Osmun & Co., 81 Adams Drive, Totowa, NJ 07512...
...Indiana University Press, Tenth and Morton Streets, Bloomington, IN 47405...
...24.95, paper, 304 pgs...
...He finds that as capitalism expands, class conflict and the potential for revolution in the third world has increased, necessitating a contemporary analysis of social forces Featured topics include the Trilateral Commission, the international division of labor, neo-fascism and the role of social democracy...
...This Indiana agricultural anthropologist analyzes the ambitious homesteading programs launched in 1970 by the Brazilian government designed to develop the Amazon region...
...Petras comes forward with an updated analysis of imperialism, emphasizing the need for rethinking international relations which accompany changes in the economic sphere...
...The book is both a synthesis of and response to earlier scholarly interpretations, and an independent contribution in its own right...
...Kiernan, a history professor at Edinburgh University, documents the country's rise to seemingly unlimited power and shows how we are now paying the price of this domination...
...Toplin, an historian, compares racism in Brazil and the United States from the days of slavery to issues of race and class in the twentieth century...
...Moran addresses the social and ecological impact of the government's policies...
...23.95, cloth, 134 pgs...
...His category, "imperial state," as opposed to national state, provides the basic framework for capital accumulation and political domination on a global scale...
...Together these two pamphlets provide a good introduction to Grenada's revolution...
...Jacobs, Guatemala's ambassador to Cuba, writes about the background for the seizure of power, life under the Gairy dictatorship, establishment of the New Jewell Movement and the revolution's character...
...He deals with the differing status of mulattoes in the two societies, the emancipation process and the varying attitudes toward the freed slaves...
...Kiernan, America: The New Imperialism, From White Settlement to World Hegemony, (Zed Press, 1980...
...BRAZIL Emilio F. Moran, Developing the Amazon (Indiana University Press, 1981...
...Based on personal field research, the book acquaints the reader with other work in the area by way of numerous references...
...Dubbed a failure four years later, the government abruptly switched gears, opening the area to large-scale development by big capital...
...Written by people close to or within the Reagan Administration, the book gives a glimpse of what Reagan and Co...
...GRENADA Sam Manuel and Andrew Pulley, Grenada--Revolution in the Caribbean (Pathfinder Press, 1981...
...20, cloth, 868 pgs...
...50, paper, 15 pgs...
...The book is extensively indexed and tells for the most part where the works can be found...
...The body of research presented here clearly refutes the myth of Brazil as a "racial paradise...
...Among the contributors, Milton and Rose Friedman with an exerpt from Free To Choose and former Deputy Director of Intelligence Ray S. Cline on foreign intelligence operations...
...Extensive bibliography...
...This voluminous tome provides a broad, sweeping analysis of a wide spectrum of domestic and international issues facing the United States today...
Vol. 15 • July 1981 • No. 4
