TY - BOOK AU - Bell,Duncan TI - Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America SN - 9780691208671 U1 - 901 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Anglo-Saxon race KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Utopias KW - bisacsh KW - Afro-modern writing KW - American imperialism KW - Americanization of the world KW - Andrew Carnegie KW - Anglo-American union KW - Anglotopian KW - Brexit KW - Britain KW - Cecil Rhodes KW - Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality KW - H. G. Wells KW - Henry Reynolds KW - Marilyn Lake KW - Michael Kenny KW - Nick Pearce KW - Shadows of Empire: The Anglosphere in British Politics KW - Srdjan Vucetic KW - T. E. S. Scholes KW - The Anglosphere: A Genealogy of a Racialized Identity in International Relations KW - United States KW - W. E. B. Du Bois KW - W. T. Stead KW - biocultural assemblage KW - citizenship KW - cyborg imperium KW - empire KW - evolutionary theory KW - future racial destiny KW - globe-spanning cyborg KW - pan-African KW - patriotism KW - philosophical pragmatism KW - race KW - racial peace thesis KW - racial utopianism KW - science fiction KW - steampunk KW - technology KW - theological justifications of empire KW - utopia KW - war KW - white racial destiny N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Introduction: Dreamworlds of Race --; 2. The Dreamer of Dreams: Andrew Carnegie and the Reunion of the Race --; 3. Americanizing the World: W. T. Stead and Cecil J. Rhodes --; 4. Artists in Reality: H. G. Wells and the New Republic --; 5. Machine Dreams: The Angloworld as Science Fiction --; 6. Beyond the Sovereign State: Isopolitan Citizenship and Race Patriotism --; 7. A Messenger of Peace to the World: Racial Utopianism and the Abolition of War --; 8. Conclusion: Unveiling the Sphinx --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 figures—Andrew Carnegie, W. T. Stead, Cecil J. Rhodes, and H. G. Wells—Duncan 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-siècle 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691208671?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691208671 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691208671/original ER -