Book cover of Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America by Duncan Bell
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Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America

How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United States

Between 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. […Learn More]