Dreamworlds of race : empire and the utopian destiny of Anglo-America / Duncan Bell.
Dreamworlds of race : empire and the utopian destiny of Anglo-America / Duncan Bell.
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
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G 2020/4563
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English
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Physical content
xiv, 465 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: Dreamworlds of race -- The dreamer of dreams: Andrew Carnegie and the reunion of the race -- Americanizing the world: W.T. Stead and Cecil J. Rhodes -- Artists in reality: H.G. Wells and the New Republic -- Machine dreams: the Angloworld as science fiction -- Beyond the sovereign state...
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
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New Jersey
Date Published
[2020]
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Summary
"Between the late nineteenth century and the outbreak of the First World War, many prominent thinkers in Britain and the United States elaborated a vision for the unification of the English-speaking world into a single political entity. The basis for this utopian thinking was a shared assumption about the racial and cultural exceptionalism of the A...
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Dreamworlds of race : empire and the utopian destiny of Anglo-America / Duncan Bell.
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Empire and the utopian destiny of Anglo-America
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Dream worlds of race
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-449) and index.
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©2020
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G 2020/4563
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74VKaKqA4lgl
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ISBN
0691194017
9780691194011
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901
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991024361319202626