The Arena of Capital

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction: Towards a Materialist Conception of Geography....Pages 2-6
The Object of Geographical Analysis....Pages 7-32
The Question of Method....Pages 33-49
The Concept of Nature....Pages 50-67
The Concept of Space....Pages 68-77
Modes of Production and the Structure of the Space-Economy....Pages 78-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Introduction: Modes of Production and Spatial Development....Pages 86-89
The Restructuring of Agricultural Space in the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism....Pages 90-123
Town and Country in the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism....Pages 124-157
Industry in the Transition to Capitalism....Pages 158-219
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Introduction: the Rise of Industrial Capitalism in Britain....Pages 222-226
The Accumulation of Capital and the Regulation of the Capitalist Mode of Production....Pages 227-247
The Transition from Manufacture to Machinofacture 1780–1850....Pages 248-274
The Golden Age of British Capitalism, 1845–1890s....Pages 275-300
The Geography of the Transition from Machinofacture to Scientific Management and Fordism, 1890s–1945....Pages 301-349
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
Conclusion: Space and Society....Pages 352-359
Back Matter....Pages 361-410