No in the first paragaph you mention Why Nations Fail and declaim that it ignores colonialism. False. Why would you not even open the book? You would have seen how extraordinary its treatment of the slave trade is compared to what Harvard political scientists have historically said about it? I mean when they deal with the question of primitive accumulation and forced labor they do not ignore slavery. They also quote Christopher Hill, Robert Brenner and E.P. Thompson. Even the short section you are talking about from another book is much better than you let on. It includes this "In 1976 the Peronist government, led by Perón’s third wife Isabel after his death in 1974, fell to a coup under the leadership of General Jorge Videla. “Once in power, the Army embarked on the conquest of any lingering resistance to a revolution in government whose aim was the total dismantlement of the Peronist state” (Rock, 1987, p. 366). The regime which lasted until the Falklands (Malvinas) War of 1982-1983 was the most repressive in Argentine history. Some 10,000 people ‘disappeared’ and many thousands more were imprisoned without trial, tortured and forced into exile. General Roberto Viola succeeded Videla in 1981, but was forced from office the same year by General Leopoldo Galtieri." Perhaps not tough enough on the British for your liking but they allow more reality into the room than your traditional mega best seller in social sciences, found in airport bookstores.
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