Dreamworlds of Race (eBook)

Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America

Duncan Bell (Autor)

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2020
488 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20867-1 (ISBN)

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How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United StatesBetween the late nineteenth century and the First World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals advocated the unification of Britain and the United States. They dreamt of the final consolidation of the Angloworld. Scholars, journalists, politicians, businessmen, and science fiction writers invested the ';Anglo-Saxons' with extraordinary power. The most ambitious hailed them as a people destined to bring peace and justice to the earth. More modest visions still imagined them as likely to shape the twentieth century. Dreamworlds of Race explores this remarkable moment in the intellectual history of racial domination, political utopianism, and world order.Focusing on a quartet of extraordinary figuresAndrew Carnegie, W. T. Stead, Cecil J. Rhodes, and H. G. WellsDuncan Bell shows how unionists on both sides of the Atlantic reimagined citizenship, empire, patriotism, race, war, and peace in their quest to secure global supremacy. Yet even as they dreamt of an Anglo-dominated world, the unionists disagreed over the meaning of race, the legitimacy of imperialism, the nature of political belonging, and the ultimate form and purpose of unification. The racial dreamworld was an object of competing claims and fantasies. Exploring speculative fiction as well as more conventional forms of political writing, Bell reads unionist arguments as expressions of the utopianism circulating through fin-de-siecle Anglo-American culture, and juxtaposes them with pan-Africanist critiques of racial domination and late twentieth-century fictional narratives of Anglo-American empire.Tracing how intellectual elites promoted an ambitious project of political and racial unification between Britain and the United States, Dreamworlds of Race analyzes ideas of empire and world order that reverberate to this day.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2020
• Zusatzinfo: No illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • African Americans • Afro-modern writing • American imperialism • americanization • Americanization of the world • A Modern Utopia • andrew carnegie • Anglo • Anglo-America • Anglo-American union • Anglophobia • Anglo-Saxons • Anglotopian • anticipations • Anti-Imperialism • Atlantic World • biocultural assemblage • Brexit • Britain • British Empire • british people • Capitalism • Cecil Rhodes • Citizenship • Civilisation (TV series) • Civilization • Civilizing Mission • Colonial empire • Colonialism • Color line (civil rights issue) • Consummation • cyborg imperium • Darwinism • Democratic Peace Theory • despotism • Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality • Empire • Eugenics • Evolutionary Theory • federal union • Free Trade • future racial destiny • Global Governance • globe-spanning cyborg • greatness • Great Power • Henry Reynolds • H. G. Wells • Ideology • imperial federation • imperial government • imperialism • Institution • Intellectual • Intellectual history • International Arbitration • International Law • International Relations • jingoism • Joseph Chamberlain • Liberalism • Literature • Manifest Destiny • Marilyn Lake • Michael Kenny • Militarism • Modernity • Monroe Doctrine • narrative • Nationality • National policy • New Worlds for Old (H. G. Wells) • Nick Pearce • novelist • On the Eve • Pan-African • Patriotism • Perpetual Peace • Philosopher • philosophical pragmatism • Philosophy • Political Philosophy • Political Science • political union • Politician • Politics • Pragmatism • Princeton University Press • Race • racial peace thesis • racial utopianism • Racism • Rapprochement • Religion • Republicanism • Rhodesia • Science Fiction • scientific romance • Settler Colonialism • Shadows of Empire: The Anglosphere in British Politics • skepticism • Slavery • Speculative Fiction • Srdjan Vucetic • Steampunk • Superiority (short story) • Supporter • supremacism • Technology • T. E. S. Scholes • The Anglosphere: A Genealogy of a Racialized Identity in International Relations • theological justifications of empire • The Other Hand • The Parliament of Man • The Sovereign State • treatise • Treaty • United Kingdom–United States relations • United States • Utopia • Utopian and dystopian fiction • Victorian Era • war • warfare • Wealth • W. E. B. Du Bois • white racial destiny • white supremacy • World Government • World Peace • Writing • W. T. Stead
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20867-0 / 0691208670
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20867-1 / 9780691208671