Cultural Geography


Cultural Geography is the first book to introduce culture from a geographical perspective. It tracks the ideas, practices and objects that together form cultures – and how these cultures form identities for individuals and populations. Crang examines a range of scales as he considers the role of states, empires and nations, firms and corporations, shops and goods, books and films, in creating identities.
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Capital, Interrupted: Agrarian Development and the Politics of Work in India


The central Gujarat region of western India is home to the entrepreneurial landowning Patel caste who have leveraged their rural dominance to become a powerful global diaspora of merchants, industrialists, and professionals. Investigating the Patels’ intriguing ascent, Vinay Gidwani analyzes its broad implications for the nature of labor and capital worldwide.
 
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A Companion to Marx’s Capital


David Harvey, the renowned lecturer and commentator on Marx, has finally collected his most recent lectures on Marx’s Capital here in one volume. Guiding the reader through the dense, complex and difficult text, Harvey elucidates its various theses and nuances for a broader audience, encompassing both the lay reader and the graduate student, who will surely benefit from Harvey’s original and sometimes critical interpretations of Marx. Where Capital was written in reaction to 19th industrialization, Harvey’s insights update the text for the modern reader, for whom the perils of contemporary capitalism continue to rage strong.
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