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Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography
Author:  David Harvey
Publisher:  Routledge
Pub. Date:  Oct 19, 2001
Edition:  1st edition
Binding:  Paperback
Pages:  448
ISBN:  0415932416
ISBN-13:  9780415932417
List Price:  45.95 USD
Amazon Sales Rank:  818,793
Bn.com Sales Rank:  430,853
Amazon UK Sales Rank:  1,923,081
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David Harvey is the most influential geographer of our era, possessing a reputation that extends across the social sciences and humanities. Spaces of Capital, a collection of seminal articles and new essays spanning three decades, demonstrates why his work has had-and continues to have-such a major impact.
The book gathers together some of Harvey's best work on two of his central concerns: the relationship between geographical thought and political power as well as the capitalist production of space. In addition, he chips away at geography's pretenses of "scientific" neutrality and grounds spatial theory in social justice. Harvey also reflects on the work and careers of little-noticed or misrepresented figures in geography's intellectual history-Kant, Von Thunen, Humboldt, Lattimore, Hegel, Heidegger, Darwin, Malthus, Foucault and many others. Via this exploration of geography's intellectual lineage, he underscores its significance for all varieties of social thought. And, in two new chapters, Harvey considers contemporary cartographic identities and social movements.
Harvey's insights into current social, environmental, and political trends, in combination with his historical observations, demonstrate the centrality of geography to comprehending the world as it is-and as it might be.

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Preface
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1Reinventing geography: an interview with the editors of New Left Review3
2What kind of geography for what kind of public policy?27
3Population, resources, and the ideology of science38
4On countering the Marxian myth - Chicago-style68
5Owen Lattimore: a memoire90
6On the history and present condition of geography: an historical materialist manifesto108
7Capitalism: the factory of fragmentation121
8A view from Federal Hill128
9Militant particularism and global ambition: the conceptual politics of place, space, and environment in the work of Raymond Williams158
10City and justice: social movements in the city188
11Cartographic identities: geographical knowledges under globalization208
12The geography of capitalist accumulation: a reconstruction of the Marxian theory237
13The Marxian theory of the state267
14The spatial fix: Hegel, Von Thunen and Marx284
15The geopolitics of capitalism312
16From managerialism to entrepreneurialism: the transformation in urban governance in late capitalism345
17The geography of class power369
18The art of rent: globalization and the commodification of culture394
Bibliography412
Index423