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Imperialism Reading Group - How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, by Walter Rodney - Week 2
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This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week's thread is here.
The book we are currently reading through is How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Please comment or message me directly if you wish to be pinged for this group, or if you no longer wish to be pinged.
This week, we will be reading the first section, "A General Overview", of Chapter 2: How Africans Developed Before The Coming Of The Europeans - Up To The Fifteenth Century. This is roughly 15 pages.
Next week, we will be reading the second section, "Some Concrete Examples", of Chapter 2: How Africans Developed Before The Coming Of The Europeans - Up To The Fifteenth Century.
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If anyone else is reading the Verso Books version of this (the one that this post has a photo of), are you noticing a bunch of basic spelling errors throughout? It's a little frustrating. Did they not proofread?
I read this version of the book when I studied it intensely for a reading group+large presentation to a few groups using this version. I took notes everywhere and fixed all of the typos I found lol. There are so many! My English spelling is fucked typing, but even I noticed it everywhere.
I generally have worse luck with Pluto Books (their book on John Brown was unreadably typoed), but Verso occasionally puts out a stinker in this regard. Sometimes there are fact-checking errors, too, which really inhibits my ability to force these books on libs. Ilan Pappe's Ten Myths About Israel gets the names of multiple U.S. political figures wrong, for example.