Tirthankar Roy. India in the World Economy: From Antiquity to the Present; Sumantra Bose. Transforming India: Challenges to the World's Largest Democracy; David Lockwood. The Indian Bourgeoisie: A Political History of the Indian Capitalist Class in the Early Twentieth Century

Read throughout the world, H. G. Wells was one of the most famous political thinkers of the early twentieth century. During the first half of the 1900s, he elaborated a bold and idiosyncratic cosmopolitan socialist vision. In this article, I offer a new reading of Wells's political thought. I argue that he developed a distinctivepragmatistphilosophical orientation, which he synthesized with his commitments to Darwinian evolutionary theory. His pragmatism had four main components: a nominalist metaphysics; a verificationist theory of truth; a Jamesian “will to believe”; and a conception of philosophy as an intellectual exercise dedicated to improving practice. His political thought was shaped by this philosophical orientation. Wells, I contend, was the most high-profile pragmatist political thinker of the opening decades of the twentieth century. Acknowledging this necessitates a re-evaluation of both Wells and the history of pragmatism.

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Alan S. Milward. War, Economy and Society, 1939–1945. (History of the World Economy in the Twentieth Century, number 5). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1977. Pp. xiv, 395. $12.95

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/83.2.408 ◽

1978 ◽

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Los Angeles ◽

World Economy ◽

University Of California ◽

War Economy ◽

The World ◽

History Of

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Afterlives

Melania ◽

10.1525/california/9780520292086.003.0014 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Penn

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Popular Press ◽

Scholarly Journals ◽

Secretary Of State ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

The World ◽

History Of

In 1903, the Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Mariano Rampolla was heir apparent to the papacy. But he became unexpectedly out of a job due to a veto by the Austro-Hungarian emperor. Rampolla retreated to a life of scholarship to edit a manuscript he had discovered in a monastic library decades earlier, Gerontius’s Life of Melania the Younger. Rampolla’s publication spawned a series of early twentieth-century reactions to Melania’s biography. This work sometimes appeared in scholarly journals. Much appeared in popular press articles such as one that compared Melania’s fasts to those of early twentieth-century suffragettes’ or a series of newspaper headlines referring to “the richest woman in the history of the world!” The hagiography also inspired early twentieth-century imitations, such as Sainte Mélanie, a pious and expanded version of Melania’s Life. This chapter examines an earlier rediscovery of this “indomitable little saint” who was seen as “Richer than Rockefeller.”

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‘The Most Beautiful Factory in the World’: the power of the garden image

The Factory in a Garden ◽

10.7228/manchester/9781784993009.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Helena Chance

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Working Conditions ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

The World ◽

Fresh Perspective ◽

History Of

An analysis of the extensive collections of photographs, illustrations, films and ephemera in company archives provides a fresh perspective on the factory gardens and parks. By means of illustrated lectures, publications and factory tours, in which the landscapes featured prominently, industrialists presented their enterprises as places of status, community, opportunity, health and hygiene and their products as authentic and modern. The landscapes and their representations defined this utopianist portrayal of working conditions and labour, and motivated myths about the commodities they produced. The advertising and packaging images from the early twentieth century of the companies discussed here are now iconic in the history of marketing and advertising, for it was largely through effective publicity that they became household names.

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American magazine „Svoboda” about the world support of Miroslav Sochi by the Ukrainian population from 1908 to 1916

Bulletin of Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University ◽

10.12958/2227-2844-2021-4(342)-27-42 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 27-42

Author(s):

Maria Alekseeva ◽

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Active Part ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

Political Views ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

Scientific Value

The article examines the events associated with the murder of the governor of Galicia Andrzej Potoсky by lviv student Miroslav Sochinsky, and the process of his support by the Ukrainian population around the world. The source for researching the events connected with the history of Miroslav is the American magazine „Svoboda”, in which the events of the case were published in detail and actively. The magazine took an active part in supporting and defending M. Sochi in various ways. Numerous articles in „Svoboda” from 1908 to 1916 covered the thoughts of the American and European press, which was sympathetic to the student's act, and noted the deep internal political reasons that pushed the young man to risk his life for the sake of change. The magazine describes in detail the 46 chambers that were advertised on the front pages of Svoboda, about the distribution of petitions for pardon, which changed Miroslav's sentence from death to twenty years in prison, the activities of foundations that raised money for Miroslav, and so on. The conclusions indicate the scientific value of the American magazine „Svoboda” in studying the history of the aftermath of the assassination of Count A. Potocki and the process of unification of all concerned Ukrainians around the world, and the further formation of political views in the early twentieth century.

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