Looking Backward 2000-1887
Bellamy| Edward
Edward Bellamy's classic look at the future has been translated into over twenty languages and is the most widely read novel of its time. A young Boston gentleman is mysteriously transported from the…
Edward Bellamy's classic look at the future has been translated into over twenty languages and is the most widely read novel of its time. A young Boston gentleman is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century -- from a world of war and want to one of peace and plenty. This brilliant vision became the blueprint of utopia that stimulated some of the greatest thinkers of our age.
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Topics
divine intervention 84 industrial army 34 social inequality 25 economic systems 14 utopian social structures 8 underground chamber 8 system of private enterprise 8 distribution of goods 8 nineteenth century 7 labor troubles 6 philosophical examination of economic systems 4 industrial army organization 4 historical comparison of social conditions 4 visionary political reform proposals 4 technological advancement 4 system of distribution 4 international council 4 future shock 4 capital consolidation 4 social equality 3 nineteenth-century industrial system critique 3 national industries 3 modern industrial system 3 industrial system 3 twentieth century 3 incentives for endeavor 3 economy of labor 3 critique of wealth disparity 3 credit card system 3 central warehouse distribution 3