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| Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village (Third World Studies) | | Author: | | ISBN: | 0935028161 | Format: | Handover | Publish Date: | June, 2005 | | | | | | | | | Book Review | | |
Susan George, author, How the Other Half Dies "Here, in microcosm, is a fascinating, carefully constructed account of the way life works in a million Third World villages."
Book Description A quiet violence today stalks the villages and shanty towns of the Third World, the violence of needless hunger. In this book, two Bengali-speaking Americans take the reader to a Bangladesh village where they lived for nine months. There, the reader 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 villagers' poverty is not fortuitous, a result of divine dispensation or individual failings of character. 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.
Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village
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