1: All about Oil
2: How America's Power Grew
3: Capital Bondage
4: Accumulation by Dispossession
5: Consent to Coercion
Further Reading
Bibliography
Notes
Index
David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He formerly held professorial positions at Oxford University and The Johns Hopkins University and has written extensively on the political economy of globalization, urbanization, and cultural change.
The prose is clear and direct, and pitched at the general reader rather than the academic specialist ... Harvey's analysis is impressive ... I hope many people beyond geography and academia read The New Imperialism ... As ever, Harvey's project provides us with a cognitive and moral map so that we can find our way into a more just, tolerant and sane future. cultural geographies ... [Harvey] makes an important theoretical contribution to understanding contemporary empire's vicissitudes. The Times Higher Education Supplement The New Imperialism, then, merits the widest possible public. David Harvey is a social theorist known for a cool, analytical style born of interdisciplinary inquiry, coupled with a keen feeling for political significance. This book showcases his talent. The Boston Pheonix David Harvey has written a profound, and profoundly disturbing, book. For thirty years his writings have taken aim at the complacent conviction that what exists works. Harvey is a scholarly radical; his writing is free of journalistic cliches, full of facts and carefully thought-through ideas. This book is beautifully crafted, its prose accessible, its narrative one of mounting intensity and urgency. The New Imperialism mounts a stunning indictment of our present institutions of power, while offering hopeful insights about how these institutions could be changed. Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics Harvey has some valid points to make. John Cassidy, Times Literary Supplement
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