The New Imperialism
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by David Harvey
Oxford University Press
Due/Published
March 2005, 288 pages,
paper
ISBN
0199278083
New in paper (S05) Recent events have placed the matter of "American Empire" firmly on the agenda. Harvey proposes a framework for understanding both the diversity and the underlying logics of different forms of imperialism, contrasting territorial and capitalistic logics of power and analyzing imperialism as a relation between them. He reintroduces Marx's category of "primitive accumulation" as an organic relation within capitalist forms of imperialism, and reveals how the neo-liberal state and its associated forms of imperialism that arose after 1970 turned to predatory practices that spawned a diverse but very widespread globalization movement. Harvey examines the recent move towards a militarized neo-conservative imperialism in the United States--as expressed in the unilateral determination to invade Iraq--in order to uncover its logic and its prospects given the wide range of forces that opposed it. He suggests that the invasion of Iraq may therefore be a sign of weakness rather than of strength in America's quest to maintain its hegemonic position in the world. '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 Contents 1. All about Oil
2. How America's Power Grew
3. Capital Bondage
4. Accumulation by Dispossession
5. Consent to Coercion
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