Bøger af David Harvey

Builds a conceputal framework to expose the underlying forces at work behind the momentous shifts in US policies and politics. This book mounts an indictment of the institutions of power, while offering insights about how these institutions could be changed.

Explains accounting information's role in making business decisions and focuses upon the aspects of accounting practice which are relevant to the non-specialist manager. This work includes a selection of topical case studies, with a spread of international examples. It is also designed to support a lecture programme.

Coventry's buses had first entered service in 1914, supplementing the tram network. The city's transport network was heavily damaged by bombing during the Second World War. After the end of the war and the end of austerity, new Daimler buses began to arrive in the city to replace the austerity and producer gas vehicles run during the war years, and those provided by other operators to cover the gaps in service created by the loss of the city's trams and by the loss of buses to the bombing. Some Maudslays and other models notwithstanding, the core of the Coventry fleet remained Daimlers right through until Coventry Corporation Transport was absorbed into the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive on 1 April 1974. In this book, David Harvey uses his unique collection of photographs to take a look at the post-war history of the Coventry bus network from 1948 to 1974.

Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have built their policies on some version of these noble values. Yet in practice, idealist agendas often turn sour as they confront specific circumstances on the ground. Demonstrated by incidents at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, the pursuit of liberty and freedom can lead to violence and repression, undermining our trust in universal theories of liberalism, neoliberalism, and cosmopolitanism.Combining his passions for politics and geography, David Harvey charts a cosmopolitan order more appropriate to an emancipatory form of global governance. Political agendas tend to fail, he argues, because they ignore the complexities of geography. Incorporating geographical knowledge into the formation of social and political policy is therefore a necessary condition for genuine democracy. Harvey begins with an insightful critique of the political uses of freedom and liberty, especially during the George W. Bush administration. Then, through an ontological investigation into geography's foundational concepts space, place, and environment he radically reframes geographical knowledge as a basis for social theory and political action. As Harvey makes clear, the cosmopolitanism that emerges is rooted in human experience rather than illusory ideals and brings us closer to achieving the liberation we seek.

In 1942, the first true 'utility' buses arrived in the city, then in 1947-54 a new fleet was acquired, almost sweeping away the pre-war vehicles. Routes were lengthened and new services introduced, but by the end of the 1950s the glory days were over, culminating in the formation of the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive in 1969.

During 1990-94, many locomotive classes became extinct, but new builds helped to redress the balance. Speedlink ended, but the first Eurostars appeared. In 1994, the Channel Tunnel opened. This book chronicles these developments. It also uses pictures to record the end of an important railway era.

Takes the reader on a journey to South Yardley, Tyseley, Acocks Green, Ladywood, Lozells, Perry Barr, Witton, Short Heath, Erdington, Pype Hayes, Washwood Heath and Alum Rock, contrasting the bustle of the city centre and the grim industrial atmosphere of the inner suburbs with the city's leafy outer suburbs.

A fascinating collection of archive photographs of Hockley in days gone by

Takes readers on the 8-mile ride along the Bristol Road to the Lickey Hills, Rubery and Rednall, and to Cotteridge, Moseley and Alcester Lanes End. This title also gives the opportunity of sampling the maze of routes in Balsall Heath known as 'The Chinese Railway'.

Takes in the routes to the north-east and east of the town, together with the trolleybus route west to Whitmore Reans and the bus services beyond to Pendeford and Codsall. This work also talks about services to Bushbury Hill, Pear Tree (Low Hill), Amos Lane, Wednesfield Road and beyond, Willenhall Road, Walsall, Bilston and Darlaston.

Following on from The Enigma of Capital, the world's leading Marxist thinker explores the hidden workings of capital and reveals the forces that will lead inexorably to the demise of our system.

For three centuries the capitalist system has shaped western society, informed its rulers, and conditioned the lives of its people. This title lays bare the follies of the international financial system, looking at the nature of capitalism, how it works and why sometimes it doesn't.

City to the Black Country

This nostalgic journey through Birmingham on the city's vintage transport will appeal to bus and tram enthusiasts as well as locals.

Collecting David Harvey's work on Paris during the second empire, this title offers insights ranging from the birth of consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards, the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire and Zola, and the reactionary cultural politics of the bombastic Sacre Couer.

History of Birmingham's number 8 bus route