A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village Contributor(s): Hartmann, Betsy (Author), Boyce, James K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0862321727 ISBN-13: 9780862321727 Publisher: Zed Books
Binding Type: Paperback Published: December 1984 * Out of Print * Click for more in this series: View from a Bangladesh Village |
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BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - India & South Asia |
Dewey: 954 |
Series: View from a Bangladesh Village |
Physical Information: 285 pages |
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Publisher 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-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. |
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