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The New Imperialism
David Harvey
264 pages
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1 fig.
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216x138mm
978-0-19-926431-5
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Hardback
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02 October 2003
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- Compelling and original
- Exposes the underlying forces at work behind recent momentous shifts in US policies and politics
People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength of or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? What was really at stake in the war on Iraq? Was it all about oil and, if not, what else was involved? What role has a sagging economy played in pushing the US into foreign adventurism and what difference does it make that neo-conservatives rather than neo-liberals are now in power? What exactly is the relationship between US militarism abroad and domestic politics?
These are the questions taken up in
this compelling and original book. Closely argued but clearly written, David Harvey, a leading social theorist of his generation, builds a conceputal framework to expose the underlying forces at work behind these momentous shifts in US policies and politics. The compulsions behind the projection of US power on the world as a 'new imperialism' are here, for the first time, laid bare for all to see.
'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 Imperalism 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
'Navigating effortlessly between history, economics, geography and politics, with persuasive argument and lucid prose, David Harvey places today's headlines in context and makes sense of the early twenty-first century maelstrom we're all caught up in. His concept of accumulation by dispossession will go far. The New Imperialism is a truly useful book.'
SUSAN GEORGE, Associate
Director, The Transnational Institute, AmsterdamReadership: Scholars, students, and those interested in: current affairs, the recent war in Iraq, imperialism, international relations, political science, sociology, world systems theory, development economics, and geopolitics.
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David Harvey, Distinguished Professor, Ph.D Program in Anthropology, City University of New York
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"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
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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
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