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John S. Partington. Building Cosmopolis: The Political Thought of H.G. Wells.(Book review)

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From: Utopian Studies
Date: 20070322
Author:Coupland, Philip M.

John S. Partington. Building Cosmopolis: The Political Thought of H.G. Wells. Aldershot, Engl.: Ashgate Press, 2000. ix + 196 pp. $99.95

For someone dead more than sixty years, H.G. Wells retains a strong presence in the world. However, despite this vigorous existence in the literary afterlife much of his message is now obscure. Today's Wells is the prophet of space travel and the progenitor of fantasies of alien invasion and time-travel. Yesterday's man was also the unceasing advocate for a revolutionary programme to transform a divided globe into the rational, plentiful, and ...

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