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Book Review: The new imperialism

Book Review: The new imperialism cultural geographies 2004 11: 469–480 reviews in brief The new imperialism. By David Harvey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003. 253 pp. £14.99 cloth. ISBN 0 19 926431 7 The shelf life of some key concepts is limited, while others enjoy an unexpected reinvi- goration after decades of disuse. Imperialism is one of the latter. A century ago, Marxists like Kautsky, Lenin and Luxemburg made imperialism their number one theoretical and political concern. By 1990, as the Indian Marxist Prabat Patnaik observed in his essay ‘Whatever happened to imperialism?’, the term was conspicuously absent in Marxist debates. Yet little more than 10 years on, imperialism is back on the agenda not only among Marxists but among leftists more generally. David Harvey’s The new imperialism is one of several new books on the topic written by left luminaries (including Noam Chomsky and Michael Mann). Meanwhile, the editors of Socialist register have made ‘the new imperialism’ the subject of the 2004 edition. Harvey’s book reflects the dual context in which it was written. Its five long chapters began life as the 2003 Clarendon Lectures delivered at Oxford University. This explains The new imperialism’s readability. The prose is clear and direct, and pitched http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cultural Geographies SAGE

Book Review: The new imperialism

Castree, Noel
Cultural Geographies , Volume 11 (4): 2 – Oct 1, 2004
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cultural geographies 2004 11: 469–480 reviews in brief The new imperialism. By David Harvey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003. 253 pp. £14.99 cloth. ISBN 0 19 926431 7 The shelf life of some key concepts is limited, while others enjoy an unexpected reinvi- goration after decades of disuse. Imperialism is one of the latter. A century ago, Marxists like Kautsky, Lenin and Luxemburg made imperialism their number one theoretical and political concern. By 1990, as the Indian Marxist Prabat Patnaik observed in his essay ‘Whatever happened to imperialism?’, the term was conspicuously absent in Marxist debates. Yet little more than 10 years on, imperialism is back on the agenda not only among Marxists but among leftists more generally. David Harvey’s The new imperialism is one of several new books on the topic written by left luminaries (including Noam Chomsky and Michael Mann). Meanwhile, the editors of Socialist register have made ‘the new imperialism’ the subject of the 2004 edition. Harvey’s book reflects the dual context in which it was written. Its five long chapters began life as the 2003 Clarendon Lectures delivered at Oxford University. This explains The new imperialism’s readability. The prose is clear and direct, and pitched

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