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The Open Conspiracy H.G. Wells on World Revolution
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W. Warren Wagar
Book Code: C7026
ISBN: 0-275-97026-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97026-0
160 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 10/30/2001
List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Probably the most important new contribution to an understanding of Wells's political thought published since [the author's] own H.G. Wells and the World State appeared in in 1961 ... [a] unique and valuable contribution to Wellsian thought This volume, and indeed all Wagar's works, is an essential read for an understanding of Wells's political vision
    —The Wellsian     Oct-Dec 2002
Description: H.G. Wells was acclaimed during his lifetime as one of the most original and creative thinkers of the 20th century, and retains to this day a position of considerable importance in the history of ideas. In 1928 when he wrote this cry for a new age of worldwide knowledge networking, there was no Internet. Yet Wells was already convinced that if only thinking people across the planet could somehow pull together and pool their expertise, energy, and insights into sort of "cerebrum for humanity," then the world would be a saner, safer, better, fairer place. Anyone aware of how the Internet already reflects both the vices and the virtues of society and wonders how a world-renowned visionary like H.G. Wells envisaged knowledge networking as working in practice will enjoy this book. It is a hymn to the practical possibilities of world group action.
Table of Contents:
  • Critical Introduction by W. Warren Wagar
  • The First Futurist
  • What Are We To Do with Our Lives?
  • The Open Conspiracy Since Wells
  • Endnotes
  • The Open Conspiracy-H.G. Wells
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2001036692
LCC Class: HX811
Dewey Class: 321
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