A Quiet Violence - View From a Bangladesh Village (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2013
First published:	May 2013
Authors:	James K. Boyce • Betsy Hartmann
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	450
ISBN-13:	978-1-4801-9161-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	1-4801-9161-2
Barcode:	9781480191617

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