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Building cosmopolis : the political thought of H.G. Wells
- Author / Creator
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- Online
Details
- Creator
- John S. Partington
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 2016
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations, tables
- ISBNs
- 9781351954259, 1351954253, 9781315261171, 1315261170, 0754633837, 1351954261
- OCLC
- ocn975222961, ocn988381936
- First published 2003 by Ashgate Publishing.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Liberal internationalism, 'ethical evolution' and cosmopolitan socialism -- 3. The death of the static : H.G. Wells and the kinetic utopia -- 4. From 'the larger synthesis' to the League of Free Nations -- 5. Educational reform from The outline of history to the 'permanent world encyclopaedia' -- 6. From the League of Nations to the functional world state -- 7. Human rights and public accountability in the functional world state -- 8. The forgotten cosmopolitan : H.G. Wells and postwar transnationalism