Power and Exploitation: Recommended Further Reading
Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Before European Hegemony: The World System AD 1250–1350(New York: Oxford University Press, 1989). Anilluminating portrayal of the global order that existed before the rise of European colonialism.
David E. Stannard, American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World(New York: Oxford University Press, 1992). Anunflinching and shocking exposé of the brutality unleashed by the European conquest of the New World.
Eduardo Galleano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1997.) Aclassic history of the exploitation and destruction of the indigenous people of South America.