The Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization

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John Hopkins University Press, 1985 - Social Science - 239 pages
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Contents

ClassMonopoly Rent Finance Capital
62
Land Rent under Capitalism
90
Class Structure and the Theory
109
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About the author (1985)

David Harvey received a Bachelor's degree and Ph.D. in geography from Cambridge University. After graduating in 1961, he joined the geography department at Bristol University as a lecturer. In the following years, he held teaching positions at Johns Hopkins and Oxford universities. He has written numerous books including Justice Nature and the Geography of Differences, The Urban Experience, The Condition of Postmodernity, and An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. He has received many honors, among them the Outstanding Contributor Award of the Association of American Geographers, the Anders Retzuis Gold Medal of the Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography, and the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize.

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TitleThe Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization
Volume 2 of Studies in the history and theory of capitalist urbanization
AuthorsDavid Harvey, Professor David Harvey
PublisherJohn Hopkins University Press, 1985
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedJul 24, 2009
ISBN080183144X, 9780801831447
Length239 pages
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