What Is, and What Is Not, Imperialism书籍.pdf
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HIMA 14,4_f6_79-105II 11/9/06 3:39 PM Page 79
Robert Brenner
What Is, and What Is Not, Imperialism?
Initially presented as a series of lectures at Oxford in
February 2003 as the US prepared to invade Iraq, David
Harvey’s The New Imperialism is a rich, provocative,
and extraordinarily wide-ranging account of capitalist
imperialism in its most recent forms.1 In order to
set the stage, the author offers an interpretation of
imperialism in its classic phase between 1884 and
1945, which is intended to constitute the theoretical-
cum-historical foundation for all that follows. Against
this background, he explains the rise of the US to
a position of unprecedented world power in the
post-World-War-II era and delineates the nature of
its hegemony. This provides the point of departure
for Harvey’s account of the new imperialism itself,
which he views as a response to the fall in profitability
and ensuing problems of capital accumulation in
the capitalist core, from the late 1960s right into the
present. Harvey’s ultimate goal is to
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