ISBN:
9780691208671
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 465 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bell, Duncan, 1976 - Dreamworlds of race
DDC:
338.7672092
Keywords:
Carnegie, Andrew
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Rhodes, Cecil
;
Stead, W. T
;
Wells, H. G
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Carnegie, Andrew,-1835-1919
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Carnegie, Andrew,-1835-1919
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Electronic books
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English-speaking countries
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Great Britain
;
United States
;
Carnegie, Andrew 1835-1919
;
Rhodes, Cecil John 1853-1902
;
Stead, William T. 1849-1912
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Wells, H. G. 1866-1946
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Großbritannien
;
USA
;
Angelsachsen
;
Sendungsbewusstsein
;
Vorherrschaft
;
Geschichte 1880-1914
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Dreamworlds of Race -- Axes of the Angloworld -- The Shape of Things to Come: Empire, War, Racial Union -- Anglotopia: Racial Futurism and the Power of Dreams -- Biocultural Assemblage: A Note on Race -- Cyborg Imperium: Racial Informatics, Infrastructural Space -- 2. The Dreamer of Dreams: Andrew Carnegie and the Reunion of the Race -- Introduction -- Anglo-America and the Logic of Historical Progress -- The True Philosophy of History: Methodological Racialism and the Germanic Element -- Contesting Carnegie -- The Vortex of Militarism: Empire, Race, International Law -- Racial Providence: The Political Theology of Unity -- Onward and Upward: And Some Day All under One Government -- 3. Americanizing the World: W. T. Stead and Cecil J. Rhodes -- Introduction -- English-Speaking Man and the Economy of the Universe -- The Great Social Nexus: Global Governance by Journalism -- A Kind of Human Flux: Stead's Racial Utopia -- Star Gazer: Rhodes and the English-Speaking World -- The Grey Archangel: Americanizing Rhodes -- 4. Artists in Reality: H. G. Wells and the New Republic -- Introduction -- In the Beginning of a New Time: The Larger Synthesis -- Evolutionary Theory and the Transformation of Philosophy -- The Fluctuating World of Men: On Race and Language -- Civilizer-General: The United States and Imperial Destiny -- 5. Machine Dreams: The Angloworld as Science Fiction -- Welcome to the Machine -- Wars of the World -- From Imperial Federation to Anglotopia -- Murder by Machinery: On Peace through War -- Argosies of Magic Sails: The Nemesis of Cosmic Empire -- 6. Beyond the Sovereign State: Isopolitan Citizenship and Race Patriotism -- Introduction -- Remaking Citizenship: Race, Empire, Isopolity -- Dicey on Isopolitan Citizenship -- Dwelling Together in Unity: Isopolitan Citizenship and Beyond.
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