H. G. Wells
THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
A Science Fiction Classic
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-3511-7
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Dream Book of Dr. Philip Raven
Book the First: Today and Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration Dawns
2. How the Idea and Hope of the Modern World State First Appeared
3. The Accumulating Disproportions of the Old Order
5. The Way in Which Competition and Monetary Inefficiency Strained the Old Order
6. The Paradox of Over-Production and Its Relation to War
8. The Impulse to Abolish War; The Episode of the Ford Peace Ship
9. The Direct Action of the Armament Industries in Maintaining War Stresses
10. Versailles: Seed Bed of Disasters
11. The Impulse to Abolish War: Why the League of Nations Failed to Pacify the World
12. The Breakdown of “Finance” and Social Morale after Versailles
13. 1933: “Progress” Comes to a Halt
Book the Second: The Days After Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration
2. The Sloughing of the Old Educational Tradition
4. Changes in War Practice after the World War
5. The Fading Vision of a World Pax: Japan Reverts to Warfare
6. The Western Grip on Asia Relaxes
7. The Modern State and Germany
9. The Last War Cyclone, 1940-50
Book the Third: The World Renascence: The Birth of the Modern State
1. The Plan of the Modern State Is Worked Out
2. Thought and Action: the New Model of Revolution
3. The Technical Revolutionary
4. Prophets, Pioneers, Fanatics and Murdered Men
5. The First Conference at Basra: 1965
6. The Growth of Resistance to the Sea and Air Ways Control
7. Intellectual Antagonism to the Modern State
8. The Second Conference at Basra, 1978
11. The Real Struggle for Government Begins
Book the Fourth: The Modern State Militant