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The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South Paperback – June 3, 2014

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In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and traced the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement. With The Poorer Nations, Prashad takes up the story where he left off. Since the ’70s, the countries of the Global South have struggled to build political movements. Prashad analyzes the failures of neoliberalism, as well as the rise of the BRICS countries, the World Social Forum, issue-based movements like Via Campesina, the Latin American revolutionary revival—in short, efforts to create alternatives to the neoliberal project advanced militarily by the US and its allies and economically by the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and other instruments of the powerful. Just as The Darker Nations asserted that the Third World was a project, not a place, The Poorer Nations sees the Global South as a term that properly refers not to geographical space but to a concatenation of protests against neoliberalism. In his foreword to the book, former Secretary-General of the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali writes that Prashad “has helped open the vista on complex events that preceded today’s global situation and standoff.” The Poorer Nations looks to the future while revising our sense of the past.
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“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

“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 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

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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Verso Books (June 3, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1781681589
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1781681589
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.25 inches
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Vijay Prashad is Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Chief Editor of LeftWord Books, and Chief Correspondent for Globetrotter (Independent Media Institute).

Prashad is the author of thirty books, including most recently Washington Bullets (LeftWord, Monthly Review), which has an introduction by Evo Morales Ayma. Roger Waters of Pink Floyd says of this book, "Like his hero Eduardo Galeano, Vijay Prashad makes the telling of the truth lovable; not an easy trick to pull off, he does it effortlessly."

His Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (New Press, 2007) was chosen by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop as the best nonfiction book of 2008, and it won the Muzaffar Ahmad Book Award for 2009. It is now available in French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish, with editions in India and Pakistan and translations in Arabic, Mandarin and Turkish in process. Kamal Mitra Chenoy, professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, wrote in Economic and Political Weekly, “This is a comprehensive, informative and rewarding book to read, and documents a critical part of our international politics and culture which is much misrepresented nowadays.” Former Indian Foreign Minister K. Natwar Singh, writing in Tehelka, notes, “The book invites comparison to Edward Said’s Orientalism. Vijay Prashad’s passionate commitment, his intellectual brio, his literary style, are all immensely impressive.” El Pais said of the Spanish edition, “Las naciones oscuras es un libro excepcionalmente documentado. Era obligado, dada la ambición del proyecto. Su documentación es tan buena que brilla.”

The sequel to Darker Nations - The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South - was published in 2012 by LeftWord Books and Verso Books. Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali called the book in his preface “a contribution to the intellectual-cum-political emancipation of developing countries and their empowerment through greater self-reliance on their own intellectual and analytical resources.”

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It was a very interesting read, I did get a little lost sometimes with all the economics terms but it is understandable enough for everyone and it really helped expand my thinking in different ways.
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It was an exciting read and for anyone who wants to know how the world got to where it is today......the secrets of the many failures and the irresponsibility of the north......a few who undermined the capacity of others to determine their destiny.
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5.0 out of 5 stars You Can't Understand World Affairs and Conflicts without POORER NATIONS
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Anyone who wants to know the cause of current global conflicts, read this book. It is the first time I have been able to find the chronological and detailed story of the domination of poorer nations by CORE (rich) countries. The information is a must for teachers and instructors, and I plan to use it in my World Regional Geograp[hy Courses.
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Dry but very informative, sort of stuff that one should be educated about in world affairs but you aren't going to get this from most other sources or most media
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Amazing history of a period of time of which I knew very little. Although colonialism is a concept which is extremely familiar, not from the view point of those nations which suffered under the weight of this system...nor from those who tried to stand up against its oppression
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5.0 out of 5 stars great book
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wonderful book...you don't need any real background to understand it, just be highly interested in the countries that the west didn't think mattered for so long....hard not to be ashamed
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5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the investment and the read
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A well researched, comprehesive, understandable book for those interested in global geo-economic history as the world's populations become more interconnected.
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I have yet to finish this book. It s part of a course series.
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Vijay Prashad no decepciona. Como en su otro libro ofrece una visión de la historia vista desde el Sur muy acertada. Se agradece una mirada crítica a la realidad de las relaciones internacionales.
As always Prashad doesn't disappoint. The book offers a certain and actually vision of International Relations from the South.
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