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ERIC Number: EJ403119
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1989
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Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward" and the American Ideology of Progress through Technology.
Segal, Howard P.
OAH Magazine of History, v4 n2 p20-24 Spr 1989
Examines Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward" as the most popular U.S. utopian novel, and a major expander of the ideology of progress through technology. Provides an explanation for the book's popularity, and compares it to other utopian novels. Warns against using "Looking Backward" as a substitute for full-scale historical inquiry in the classroom. (RW)
Descriptors: Economic Change, Ideology, Novels, Science and Society, Scientific Enterprise, Secondary Education, Social Change, Social Problems, Social Structure, Social Studies, Social Values, Technology, United States History
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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