Table of Contents

Thoughts for a Prologue.

Introduction.

Part I: Orientations.

1. Militant Particularism and Global Ambition.

2. Dialectics.

3. A Cautionary Tale on Internal Relations.

4. The Dialectics of Discourse.

5. Historical Agency and the Loci of Social Change.

Part II: The Nature of Environment.

Prologue.

6. The Domination of Nature and its Discontents.

7. Valuing Nature.

8. The Dialectics of Social and Environmental Change.

Part III: Space, Time and Place.

Prologue.

9. The Social Construction of Space and Time.

10. The Currency of Space-Time.

11. From Space to Place and Back Again.

Part IV: Justice, Difference and Politics.

Prologue.

12. Class Relations, Social Justice and the Political Geography of Difference.

13. The Environment of Justice.

14. Possible Urban Worlds.

Thoughts for an Epilogue.

Bibliography.

Index.

About the Author

David Harvey is Professor of Geography at the Johns Hopkins University. From 1987-1993 he was Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. He received the Outstanding Contributor Award from the American Association of Geographers in 1980; the Anders Retzius Gold Medal from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography in 1989; the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society and the Vautrin Lud Prize in 1995.

His books include The Explanation in Geography (1969); Social Justice and the City (Blackwell, 1973, new edition 1988); The Limits to Capital (Blackwell, 1982); The Urban Experience (Blackwell, 1989) and The Condition of Postmodernity (Blackwell, 1989).

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