A Possible History of the Global South
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.
It is startling how insulated the West has remained from the
thinking, achievements, and struggles of the great majority of the
world's people. This lucid and well-informed study reveals how much
there is to learn from this rich and vibrant record.
*Noam Chomsky*
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*
Vijay Prashad is our own Frantz Fanon. His writing of protest is
always tinged with the beauty of hope.
*Amitava Kumar*
Vijay Prashad helps to uncover the shining worlds hidden under
official history and dominant media.
*Eduardo Galeano*
Vijay Prashad has courageously and meticulously forged a
fascinating study that challenges mainstream, Western narratives of
world history. In this provocative and sweeping exploration, the
injustices and subjugation of peoples in the global South are not
only made visible but political.
*Susanne Soederberg, Professor in Global Development Studies,
Queens University, Canada*
With eloquence, wit, and urgency, Prashad tells the real story of
global restructuring, the dismantling of the Third World Project,
the rise and demise of neoliberalism, and how the future of the
planet is tied to the dreams of the dispossessed.
*Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Africa Speaks, America Answers:
Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times*
Vijay Prashad is fast becoming the historian of the Global South.
His newest book The Poorer Nations is as detailed and well-cited as
anything by Noam Chomsky. Prashad turns the statistics and
descriptions he writes into prose that is understandable and
simmering with a justified rage.
*Ron Jacobs*
An ambitious, complex, and lucid history of a political and
economic project that emanated from the global South...The Poorer
Nations distills a complex economic history into a lucid and
engaging narrative...A historical materialist history of economic
transformation that helps us understand the shift to neoliberal
governance in our times.
*American Quarterly*
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