David Harvey is one of most famous Marxist intellectuals in the past half century, as well as one of the world's most cited social scientists. Beginning in the early 1970s with his trenchant and still-relevant book Social Justice and the City and through this day, Harvey has written numerous books and dozens of influential essays and articles on topics across issues in politics, culture, economics, and social justice.

 In The Ways of the World, Harvey has gathered his most important essays from the past four decades. They form a career-spanning collection that tracks not only the development of Harvey over time as an intellectual, but also a dialectical vision that gradually expanded its reach from the slums of Baltimore to global environmental degradation to the American imperium. While Harvey's coverage is wide-ranging, all of the pieces tackle the core concerns that have always animated his work: capitalism past and present, social change, freedom, class, imperialism, the city, nature, social justice, postmodernity, globalization, and-not least-the crises that inhere in capitalism.

 A career-defining volume, The Ways of the World will stand as a comprehensive work that presents the trajectory of Harvey's lifelong project in full.

Contents
 Foreword
 Introduction
 Chapter 1
 Revolutionary and Counter-Revolutionary Theory in Geography
 and the Problem of Ghetto Formation
 Chapter 2
 The Geography of Capitalist Accumulation
 A Reconstruction of the Marxian Theory
 Chapter 3
 Monument and Myth
 The Building of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart
 Chapter 4
 Time-Space Compression and the Postmodern Condition
 Chapter 5
 From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism
 The Transformation in Urban Governance in Late Capitalism
 Chapter 6
 The Nature of Environment:
 The Dialectics of Social and Environmental Change
 Chapter 7
 Militant Particularism
 Chapter 8
 The New Imperialism
 Accumulation by Dispossession
 Chapter 9
 The Urban Roots of Financial Crises
 Reclaiming the City for Anti-Capitalist Struggle
 Chapter 10
 Capital Evolves
 Conclusion
 Where is the World Headed?
 Bibliography
 Acknowledgements
 Index