Main entry:

Harvey, David, 1935- author.

Title & Author:

The ways of the world / David Harvey.

Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Description:

viii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Revolutionary and Counter-Revolutionary Theory in Geography and the Problem of Ghetto Formation -- The Geography of Capitalist Accumulation: A Reconstruction of the Marxian Theory -- The Urban Process under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis -- Monument and Myth: The Building of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart -- Time-Space Compression and the Postmodern Condition -- From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The Transformation in Urban Governance in Late Capitalism -- The Nature of Environment: The Dialectics of Social and Environmental Change -- Militant Particularism and Global Ambition -- The New Imperialism: Accumulation by Dispossession -- The Urban Roots of Financial Crises: Reclaiming the City for Anti-Capitalist Struggle -- Capital Evolves.

Summary:

David Harvey is one of most famous Marxist intellectuals in the past half century, as well as one of the world's most cited social scientists. Beginning in the early 1970s with his trenchant and still-relevant book Social Justice and the City and through this day, Harvey has written numerous books and dozens of influential essays and articles on topics across issues in politics, culture, economics, and social justice. In The Ways of the World, Harvey has gathered his most important essays from the past four decades. They form a career-spanning collection that tracks not only the development of Harvey over time as an intellectual, but also a dialectical vision that gradually expanded its reach from the slums of Baltimore to global environmental degradation to the American imperium. While Harvey's coverage is wide-ranging, all of the pieces tackle the core concerns that have always animated his work: capitalism past and present, social change, freedom, class, imperialism, the city, nature, social justice, postmodernity, globalization, and-not least-the crises that inhere in capitalism. A career-defining volume, The Ways of the World will stand as a comprehensive work that presents the trajectory of Harvey's lifelong project in full.-- Provided by Publisher.

ISBN:

9780190469443 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0190469447 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780190690519 (paperback)
0190690518 (paperback)

Subject:

Cultural geography.
Human geography.
Environmentalism.
Capitalism.
Social justice.
Sociology.
Géographie culturelle.
Environnementalisme.
Justice sociale.
Sociologie.
sociology.
Kulturgeografi.
Miljörörelser.
Kapitalism.
Social rättvisa.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292879
Call No.: BIB 237429
Status: Available