[PEN-L:11628] Re: Capitalist development

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How about _The World and Africa_ by W.E.B. Dubois ?

CB

>>> Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> 09/21/99 03:07PM >>>

But I don't think that Jim Blaut wrote this book to change the minds of
people like Rod Hay, Ricardo Duchesne and Aidan Campbell. I would assume
that it is directed to people who are not ideologically committed to
Eurocentrism, but who have merely been miseducated in high school or
college. Although I don't think that Jim Blaut could write academic jargon
if his life depended on it, the "Colonizer's Model of the World" is
refreshingly clear and accessible to the average person.

I hope that it becomes a classic. If I were going to compile a list of
books for a person new to these sorts of questions, I'd include the following:

1) Jim Blaut, "Colonizer's Model of the World"
2) Walter Rodney, "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa"
3) Eduardo Galeano, "Open Veins of a Continent"
4) Dee Brown, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"
5) Gerard Colby, "Thy Will be Done"
6) Howard Zinn, "People's History of the United States"
7) A. L. Morton, "People's History of England"
8) Leo Huberman, "Man's Wordly Goods"
9) Marilyn Young, "Vietnam Wars 1945-1990"
10) Basil Davidson, "Lost Cities of Africa"

Louis Proyect

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