The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South - Hardcover

Vijay Prashad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844679527 ISBN 13: 9781844679522

Publisher: Verso Books, 2013

Synopsis

In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and told the story of the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement. With The Poorer Nations, Prashad takes up the story where he left it. Since the 70s, the countries of the Global South have struggled to express themselves politically. Prashad analyzes the failures of neoliberalism, as well as the rise of the BRIC countries, the Group of 12, the World Social Forum, the Latin American revolutionary revival in short, all the efforts to create alternatives to the neoliberal project advanced militarily by the US and its allies, among whom number the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and other economic instruments of the powerful. A true global history, The Poorer Nations is informed by interviews with leading players such as senior UN officials, as well as Prashad's pioneering research into archives of the Julius Nyerere led South Commission.

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Review:

Vijay Prashad helps to uncover the shining worlds hidden under official history and dominant media. --Eduardo Galeano

At a time when the ideologues of the Washington Consensus appeal to former colonies to free themselves from history, Vijay Prashad recalls a past without which it is impossible to understand the present. --Tariq Ali

About the Author:

Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Professor of South Asian History at Trinity College, Connecticut. He is the author of a number of books, including The Darker Nations: a People's History of the Third World and Arab Spring, Libyan Winter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1844679527
• ISBN 13: 9781844679522
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304