The New Imperialism
Abstract
People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength 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? What exactly is the relationship between US militarism abroad and domestic politics? These are the questions taken up in this compelling and original book. In this closely argued and clearly written book, David Harvey, one of the leading social theorists of his generation, builds a conceptual 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.
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Preventing people from accessing their personal data through accumulation by dispossession parallels the primitive accumulation of land enclosure movements that separated producers from the means of production.
“preventing people from accessing their personal data through processes of accumulation by dispossession (Harvey 2003) parallels the primitive accumulation of the land enclosure movements that separated the producers from the means of production”
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- Authors
- Harvey, D.
- Corresponding author
- Harvey, David
- Venue
- Oxford University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2003-10-02
- Pages
- 256-261
- OpenAlex
- W1489901752
- Cited by
- 7,037
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 302 · 2025: 309 · 2024: 326 · 2023: 274 · 2022: 339 · 2021: 369 · 2020: 457 · 2019: 510 · 2018: 397 · 2017: 379 · 2016: 354 · 2015: 319 · 2014: 373 · 2013: 392 · 2012: 369
- FWCI
- 162.57
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
- OUP Catalogue (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Relations and Foreign Policy
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Economy and Marxism
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › World Systems and Global Transformations
- Keywords
- new imperialism, US foreign policy, Iraq War, US militarism, domestic politics and foreign policy, US hegemony, war on terror
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