"Spanning nearly three decades of work, this collection shows David Harvey as steadfast in his commitments
while he keeps up with changing times."
--Iris Young, University of Chicago.
"These wise reflections on intellectual movements and political battles of the recent past show why David
Harvey has become such an impressive figure of contemporary social critique. His fierce intellectual independence
and equally insistent moral decency illuminate a concern for social justice that is primarily economic but extends
into every sphere. No other scholar of our day has delved so deeply into the powers of capital to remake space
and time, or argued so persuasively to place these processes at the core of all social thought."
--Sharon Zukin, author of The Cultures of Cities.
"David Harvey has done more than anyone else to demonstrate the centrality of geographical space in the evolution
of human society under capitalism. He has done so in a constant dialogue with Marx, aware of the need to confront
not just Marx's strengths but his weaknesses. Written over twenty-five years, these essays are an invaluable source
of ideas on how human geography shapes and is in turn shaped by capitalist development. The book provides an excellent
introduction to Harvey's work: it is essential reading for those interested in creative reinterpretations of Marx
and in the historical geography of capitalism globally and locally."
--Giovanni Arrighi, author of The Long Twentieth Century.
Routledge New York Publishers Web Site, January, 2002
Summary
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.
Table of Contents
Prologue
1. Reinventing geography Part One: Geographical Knowledges/Political Power 2. What kind of geography for what kind of public policy?
3. Populaton. resources, and the ideology of science
4. On countering the Marxian myth - Chicago style
5. Owen Lattimore: a memoire
6. On the History and present condition of geography: a historical materialist manifesto
7. Capitalism: the factory of fragmentation
8. A view from Federal Hill
9. Militant particularism and global ambition: the conceptual politics of place, space and environment in the work
of Raymond Williams
10. City and justice: social movements in the city
11. Cartographic identities: geographical knowledges and political power Part Two: The Capitalist Production of Space 12. The geography of capitalist accumulation: a reconstruction of the Marxian theory
Antipode 1975
13. The Marxian theory of the state
14. The spatial fix: Hegel, von Thunen, and Marx
15. The geopolitics of capitalism
16. From managerialism to entrepreneurialism: the transformation in urban governance in late capitalism
17. The geography of class power
