Go here to find a quick list of our books.

Creating Surplus Populations: The Effects of Military and Corporate Policies on Indigenous Peoples

Lenora Foerstel, editor

Library of Congress Catalog Number D842.2.C74

291 pages

Photos, Appendices

Publication date May 1, 1996

Paperback $16.95 ISBN 0-944624-31-6 or 9780944624319

The last three decades have seen a tremendous growth in the number of refugees, displaced persons, and migrants. Media reports generally lay the blame on ethnic or religious warfare, incompetent third-world government, or natural disasters. This book lays the blame at the feet of Western armed intervention (either directly or through surrogates) and corporate global expansionism. This is a courageous and important book which poses real solutions based on truthful analyses of the world’s great tragedies. Covers such nations as Haiti, East Timor, Iraq, Cuba, Rwanda, Bosnia, Native America, Sudan, Somalia, and more. Read this book as an antidote to the lies and distortions coming from the mass media in the United States and Western Europe. Get the real story on Bosnia—how the U.S. and Germany are creating a surplus population as a result of their desire to divide the economic control of Eastern Europe among themselves.

Lenora Foerstel began her career as an anthropologist with extended field work with Dr. Margaret Mead in Papua New Guinea. She has written numerous articles, produced several films, and co-authored a book, Confronting the Margaret Mead Legacy: Scholarship, Empire, and The South Pacific (Temple University Press). She was a member of the 1953 American Museum of Natural History Expedition to Manus Island, led by Dr. Margaret Mead. She is the North American Coordinator for Women for Mutual Security and has served as a delegate to the First International Conference on Women, Peace, and the Environment held in Moscow in 1989. More recently she coordinated and convened the International Pacific Policy Congress in Vanuatu. For more than thirty years, she was professor of Ethnohistory at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD.

Click here to see the Table of Contents

[ Home ] [ Up ]