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The Tale of the Next Great War, 1871-1914: Fictions of Future Warfare and of Battles Still-To-Come - Hardcover
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This selection of short stories offers a return journey through the future as it used to be. Time speeds backwards to the 1870s - to the alpha point of modern futuristic fiction - the opening years of that enchanted period before the First World War when Jules Verne, H. G. Wells and many able writers delighted readers from Sydney to Seattle with their most original revelations of things-to-come. In all their anticipations, the dominant factor was the recognition that the new industrial societies would continue to evolve in obedience to the rate of change. One major event that caused all to think furiously about the future was the Franco-German War of 1870. The new weapons and the new methods of army organization had shown that the conduct of warfare was changing; and, in response to that perception of change, a new form of fiction took on the task of describing the conduct of the war-to-come.
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The imaginary wars in this collection of sixteen stories, extensively illustrated with carefully chosen contemporary drawings, are powerful reminiscences of dominant expectations as these were perceived and projected during a fateful period of history.
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I. F. Clarke was Foundation Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde.
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- PublisherSyracuse Univ Pr
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 081562672X
- ISBN 13 9780815626725
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages382
- EditorClarke I. F.
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