Building Cosmopolis : The Political Thought of H.G. Wells (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction; Liberal internationalism, 'ethical evolution' and cosmopolitan socialism; The death of the static: H.G. Wells and the kinetic Utopia; From 'the larger synthesis' to the League of Free Nations; Educational reform from The Outline of History to the 'permanent world encyclopaedia'; From the League of Nations to the functional world state; Human rights and public accountability in the functional world state; The forgotten cosmopolitan: H.G. Wells and postwar transnationalism; Postscript: Mind at the end of its tether?; Bibliography; Index.