The ways of the world

This book presents a sequence of landmark works in David Harvey's intellectual journey over five decades. It shows how experiencing the riots, despair and injustice of 1970s Baltimore led him to seek an explanation of capitalist inequalities via Marx and to a sustained intellectual engagement that has made him the world's leading exponent of Marx's work. The book takes the reader through the development of his unique synthesis of Marxist method and geographical understanding that has allowed him to develop a series of powerful insights into the ways of the world, from the new mechanics of imperialism, crises in financial markets and the effectiveness of car strikers in Oxford, to the links between nature and change, why Sacre Coeur was built in Paris, and the meaning of the postmodern condition. David Harvey is renowned for originality, acumen and the transformative value of his insights. This book shows why.

Intro -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Picture Credits -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Revolutionary and Counter-Revolutionary Theory in Geography and the Problem of Ghetto Formation -- Chapter 2: The Geography of Capitalist Accumulation -- A Reconstruction of the Marxian Theory -- Chapter 3: The Urban Process under Capitalism -- A Framework for Analysis -- Chapter 4: Monument and Myth -- The Building of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart -- Chapter 5: Time-Space Compression and the Postmodern Condition -- Chapter 6: From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism

The Transformation in Urban Governance in Late Capitalism -- Chapter 7: The Nature of Environment -- The Dialectics of Social and Environmental Change -- Chapter 8: Militant Particularism and Global Ambition -- Chapter 9: The 'New' Imperialism -- Accumulation by Dispossession -- Chapter 10: The Urban Roots of Financial Crises -- Reclaiming the City for Anti-Capitalist Struggle -- Chapter 11: Capital Evolves -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index