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Loading... Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village (Third World Studies)by Betsy Hartmann, James K. Boyce
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A quiet violence today stalks the villages and shanty towns of the Third World, the violence of needless hunger. In this book, two Bengali-seaking Americans take the reader to a Bangladesh village where they lived for nine months.There, the readers meets some of the world's poorest people - peasants, sharecroppers and landless labourers - and some of the not-so-poor people who profit from their misery. The villager's poverty is not fortuitous, a result of divine dispensation or individual failings of charachter. Rather, it is the outcome of a long history of exploitation, culminating in a social order which today benefits a few at the expense of many. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)954.9History and Geography Asia India and South Asia Other South AsiaLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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