Utopia's quest from somewhere to everywhere : humanitarian thought-experiment or expansionist blueprint?

This thesis investigates four utopias, Plato’s Republic, Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward, and H. G. Wells’s A Modern Utopia, in relation to postcolonial criticisms that present them as outlining ostensibly ‘universal’ values and as being inherently colonial, expansionist,...

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Main Author: Khoshnaw, Mahmood Nawzad
Other Authors: Richards, Simon ; Rawlinson, Mark
Published: University of Leicester 2017
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.702698