| Description |
xi, 429 pages : illustrations, plan ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Reinventing geography: an interview with the editors of New Left Review -- 2. What kind of geography for what kind of public policy? -- 3. Population, resources, and the ideology of science -- 4. On countering the Marxian myth - Chicago-style -- 5. Owen Lattimore: a memoire -- 6. On the history and present condition of geography: an historical materialist manifesto -- 7. Capitalism: the factory of fragmentation -- 8. A view from Federal Hill -- 9. Militant particularism and global ambition: the conceptual politics of place, space, and environment in the work of Raymond Williams -- 10. City and justice: social movements in the city -- 11. Cartographic identities: geographical knowledges under globalization -- 12. The geography of capitalist accumulation: a reconstruction of the Marxian theory -- 13. The Marxian theory of the state -- 14. The spatial fix: Hegel, Von Thunen and Marx -- 15. The geopolitics of capitalism -- 16. From managerialism to entrepreneurialism: the transformation in urban governance in late capitalism -- 17. The geography of class power -- 18. The art of rent: globalization and the commodification of culture |
| Summary |
Provides an overview of the development of David Harvey's arguments, from his earliest preoccupations with the role of geography in Marxism, to his more recent writings on postmodern capitalism and the transformation of urban development. [from publisher's advertisement] |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 412-422) and index |
| Subject |
Geography -- Philosophy.
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Capital.
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Human geography.
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Urban economics.
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Urban geography.
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Communism and geography.
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Space in economics.
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Capitalism.
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Marxian economics.
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| LC no. |
2001031921 |
| ISBN |
0415932416 paperback |
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0415932491 paperback |
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0748615407 hardback |
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0748615415 paperback |
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