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  Edward Bellamy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850–May 22, 1898) was an American author, most famous for his utopian novel set in the year 2000, Looking Backward, published in 1888.
Edward Bellamy was born in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts.
Bellamy died at his childhood home in Chicopee Falls at the age of 48 from tuberculosis.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Edward Bellamy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bellamy incorporated some of the reforms that women's rights groups were advocating at the time, but he did so in a conservative manner and in a style that is far too similar to the male-dominated literature of the period.
Bellamy takes a peep into the twentieth century and sees all the new order of things working — a paradise on earth where, as he says, the only currency of the country is the image of God and that that is good for all they have.
  Christine McHugh, "Edward Bellamy and the Populists: The Agrarian Response to Utopia, 1888–1898" (Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois, 1977), 112.
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 Bellamy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Bellamy, (1850-98) American journalist, science-fiction writer and utopian.
Francis Bellamy, Edward Bellamy's cousin, the author of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Bellamy the Hyena, a character from the One Piece manga and anime.
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 Edward Bellamy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Edward Bellamy (March 26 1850 – May 22 1898) was an American author most famous for his utopian novel set in the year 2000 Looking Backward published in 1888.
Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, is a vision of a utopian Boston of the year 2000 seen in the eyes of the fictional, nineteenth century Bostonian, Julian West.
The author Edward Bellamy was the cousin of Francis Bellamy the author of the Pledge of Allegiance, which expresses the ideas Edward Bellamy's socialist utopian novels.
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Edward Bellamy was born March 26, 1850 in Chicoppee Falls, Massachusetts.
Bellamy's novel gained so much attention after it was published, Gronlund stopped the distribution of his work and endorsed Bellamy's vision as the means to a new socialist society.
By late 1888, the first of the Bellamy Nationalist Clubs was formed and the movement soon spread across the country attracting such notable personalities as authors William Dean Howells and Edward Everett Hale.
www.bgsu.edu /departments/acs/1890s/bellamy/bellamy.html   (466 words)

  
 ParEcon.org -- Edward Bellamy and the 21st Century
Moreover, Bellamy’s choice of a military hierarchy as the institutional role model for his new economy was, unfortunately, antithetical to the kind of democratic birthing required.
But Bellamy was so worried that if workers voted for their own officers this might prove "ruinous to the discipline of the guild by tempting the candidates to intrigue for the support of the workers under them" that he limited voting for higher echelons of the officer corps of the "industrial army" to retired officers!
Bellamy’s vision was a meritocratic hierarchy where the most capable and dedicated were entrusted with making decisions that maximize the benefits that could be extracted from the physical and human resources available.
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 Edward Bellamy influenced NAZISM
Bellamy’s father was Reverend Rufus King Bellamy and Bellamy’s mother was Maria Putnam Bellamy, daughter of the Reverend Benjamin Putnam.
Edward was close to his mother and she inspired him to become an insatiable reader, especially of the biographies of great men and tales of adventure.
Edward Bellamy lived from 1850–1898, and died in Chicopee, Massachusetts and was spared witnessing the horrors that his socialism caused to the rest of humanity.
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 Edward Bellamy and the 21st Century
Similarly, Bellamy’s description of a desirable alternative to capitalism based on collective management of all the productive resources of the nation for the equal benefit of all is compelling and inspiring compared to most alternatives to capitalism discussed in the aftermath of the demise of Communism.
Bellamy proposed to "exact" from each citizen the same level of effort or sacrifice — his or her very best effort with adjustments made in the number of hours people worked at jobs of different desirabilities.
No doubt Bellamy would have different answers if he were to wake up today, a hundred years after his death, as the hero in his incomparable utopian novel did, and survey the twentieth century history of the centrally planned economies.
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 Francis Bellamy & Edward Bellamy inspired NAZIS
Bellamy's flag pledge originally extended the right arm out toward the flag while the "flag prayer" was chanted reverential, en masse and on the cue of a ringing bell.
Edward Bellamy was spared witnessing the horrors that his socialism caused to the rest of humanity.
If Edward Bellamy's fictional character had awakened in the year 2000 he would have learned that since 1887 Bellamy's philosophy had set and was holding all the worst records for shortages, poverty, misery, starvation, atrocities and mass slaughter.
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 THE RELIGION OF SOLIDARITY & EDWARD BELLAMY & THE BELLAMY SOCIALIST DOGMA
The biography “Edward Bellamy” by Arthur E. Morgan states “...there is repeated evidence that in his effort to become free from the loving pressure upon him, he came to the point of spiritual rebellion.
Edward Bellamy continued to make socialism his religion, as shown in Bellamy's fantasy novel “Looking Backward.” A cynical passage near the end of Chapter 26 gives the only mention of their minor status, used as a story device for spouting Edward Bellamy’s socialist philosophy.
After Edward Bellamy’s book of 1888, and shortly before Francis Bellamy wrote the pledge (1892) for the Youth’s Companion magazine, Francis was pushed out of the ministry for his real-life socialist propagandizing, including sermons like “Jesus the Socialist.”; An actual speech entitled “Jesus the Socialist”; by Francis Bellamy is not known to exist today.
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 Amazon.com: Looking Backward: Books: Edward Bellamy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Edward Bellamy does an excellent albeit sometimes pedantic job of communicating his socioeconomic views and provides an interesting and informative read, despite the fact that the utopia of his fictional creation is a socialist nightmare in the realm of my own personal philosophy.
Bellamy makes the story of this most unusual of time travelers a most enjoyable one, bringing in an unusual type of old-fashioned romance to supply the beating heart of a novel that had the potential to become overly analytical and thus rather boring reading otherwise.
Bellamy's year 2000 is a socialist heaven for the army of workers, a land of ease and plenty.
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 James J. Kopp | Looking Backward at Edward Bellamy's Influence in Oregon, 1888–1936 | Oregon Historical ...
Bellamy and her daughter, who toured the country on a lecture circuit and also broadcast talks on the radio, came to Portland at the invitation of Rabbi Edward T. Sandrow.
Bellamy was strongly influenced by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, an American feminist philosopher and a member of the Boston Nationalist Club Number One; and a number of Bellamy's early non-utopian writings suggested that he was inclined to be a spokesperson for women's rights.
Although Gilman disliked the centralism of Bellamy's Nationalism and the methods he designed to achieve his perfected world, she joined one of the Bellamy Clubs in 1890 and was a frequent speaker and contributor to the publications associated with the Nationalist Movement.
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 Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy is a novel that takes the reader from the end of the 19th century into an idealistic vision of the 21st century.
Through these often Socratic conversations, Bellamy provides the reader with insight into the social problems and ills of the mid-to-late 19th century as well as with a vision of a utopian possibility for the millennium.
Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) is also of compelling interest to students who enjoy biographical criticism.
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 Looking Forward: A Profile of Edward Bellamy - Linda Simon
Responding to the economic, social, and political problems at the turn of the century, Bellamy set his novel in the year 2000, when, as he saw it, those problems would be solved happily, and American society would have evolved into a kinder, gentler, more equitable place.
Edward Bellamy was born on March 26, 1850, in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, where his father was a liberal minded, often outspoken Baptist minister.
As Bellamy grew up, he saw the effects of this class division in many labor strikes, in the faces of poor children trudging to work in the factories, and in the squalor of the workers' homes and lives.
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 BookRags: Edward Bellamy Biography
Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) was an American novelist, an economic propagandist, and a social reformer.
Edward Bellamy was born on March 26, 1850, in Chicopee Falls, Mass.
In 1867 Bellamy failed to get an appointment to West Point; instead he studied literature for a year at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. He spent much of the next year in Dresden, Germany, where he observed the prosperity of the state-owned china works.
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 Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward 2000-1887   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bellamy is most imaginative in his description of a universal internet-like device.
Although Bellamy is evasive on details on the education system (West, upon visiting schools with Dr. Leete, "shall not describe in detail what I saw in the schools that day" [240]), but it is public, universal, and free, all the way up to the collegiate level.
Bellamy truly believed in his utopia, and even with its flaws, the fictional Boston of 2000 is one of the most well-planned nineteenth century English utopias.
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 EEN NIEUWE MAATSCHAPPIJ ZONDER WINSTBEJAG
De waarheid is altijd wel geweest dat de IVB er sinds 1932 was en is om het gedachtegoed, dat Edward Bellamy vastlegde in zijn boeken, uit te dragen, levend te houden en meer niet en dat is precies wat wij wel doen.
Edward Bellamy en zijn visioenen: 247 bladzijden met voor het eerst in het Nederlands gepubliceerde verhalen.
Edward Bellamy zag dus vanuit een verdere toekomst terug in het verleden en dat verleden was het jaar 2000, zijn startpunt.
www.bellamy.nl   (749 words)

  
 Edward Bellamy - Looking Backward
Edward Bellamy was born March 26, 1850, in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, and spent most of his life in this industrial town on the banks of the beautiful Connecticut River, called Chicopee, "river of elms" by the Indians.
Bellamy, like St. Francis, proved that the proverb does not always hold true that the prophet is without honor in his own country, since all manner and classes of Americans were inspired and endorsed his plan when his book was originally published in 1888.
Very simply, I believe Edward Bellamy is telling us that in the Ideal World that he envisions for humankind, everyone on earth will consider everyone living on the earth, regardless of race, nation, religion, color, family, etc. as members of their own physical families, and will treat them as such.
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 Edward Bellamy / Biography
Bellamy depicts the utopian society of the year 2000, what he called a "cooperative commonwealth" in which competitive capitalism is dead.
To a man miraculously transported into the future, Bellamy believed, the injustices of the 19th century would be apparent.
The book inspired interest in socialism and led to the formation of Nationalist clubs, based on Bellamy's theories, that advocated the nationalization of public services.
www.cooperativeindividualism.org /bellamybio.html   (117 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Edward Bellamy
Bellamy and his cousin, novelist Edward Bellamy, were utopian socialists.
Francis Bellamy was asked to prepare a program for Columbus Day that year, and he decided to center the celebration around the flag.
It was written by Francis Bellamy, a Christian Socialist pushed out of his post as a Baptist minister for delivering pulpit-pounding sermons on such topics as "Jesus the Socialist." Bellamy was devoted to the ideas of his more-famous cousin Edward Bellamy, author of the 1888 utopian novel Looking Backward.
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 Looking Backward: 2000-1887 Summary & Essays - Edward Bellamy
The author, Edward Bellamy, although a prolific writer of short stories, essays, and novels, is remembered almost solely for this utopian novel.
The premise of the story is that Julian West, a privileged citizen of 1887 Boston, awakes from a 113-year trance-induced sleep to discover that the majority of the world enjoys peace, prosperity, and equality.
Bellamy, a sensitive man keenly aware of the injustices and inequities of nineteenth-century culture, uses Looking Backward to espouse his views on social and economic reform.
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 Edward Bellamy
Edward Bellamy was born in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, on March 26, 1850.
Bellamy’s interests turned toward social reform, and he devoted two years to the writing of his most famous work, Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888).
Bellamy died in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, on May 22, 1898.
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 Bellamy, Edward - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
BELLAMY, EDWARD [Bellamy, Edward], 1850-98, American author, b.
The work sold over a million copies in the next few years and resulted in the formation of "Nationalist" clubs throughout the nation and the founding of the Nationalist monthly (1888-91).
Bellamy himself founded and edited the New Nation (1891-94), a weekly.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/bellamye.asp   (382 words)

  
 Edward Bellamy Looking Back Bellamy's book was written to offer a political philosophy that might improve the lot of posterity.
Edward Bellamy deals with the idea that analyzing the problem and proposing practical solutions in the form of social and political action will bring improvements.
It is written by an author who remembers having lived as the famous utopian author Edward Bellamy, who wrote Looking Backward, published in 1888.
www.edward-bellamy.com   (334 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Edward Bellamy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bellamy was born on March 26th, 1850, to the Reverend Rufus Bellamy and Maria Putnam Bellamy, in the mill town of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts.
Bellamy was disillusioned by this failure of the system to care for the disadvantaged, although he told Mason Green, his first biographer, that he couldn’t remember which side he was on.
Bellamy’s interest in social and political questions, as well as in romance, was very clear in his publication o
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