The Dominion in 1983 - Couverture souple

Centennius, Ralph

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ISBN 10 : 1444463411 ISBN 13 : 9781444463415

Editeur : Aeterna, 2026

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Written in 1883 and set a century ahead, The Dominion in 1983 is a bold Canadian vision of the future: part political prophecy, part technological romance, and part national manifesto. Ralph Centennius imagines Canada transformed from a young confederation into a vast, confident power, its provinces expanded, its northern cities thriving, its people bound by loyalty, invention, and public purpose. Looking back from the imagined year 1983, the narrator contrasts the doubts of the nineteenth century with a coming age of electric cities, illuminated streets, Arctic industry, scientific travel, social reform, and astonishing population growth. Yet this is not merely a catalogue of marvels. Behind the optimism lies a warning: nations survive only when courage, unity, and moral discipline overcome corruption, faction, and the tempting loss of independence. The book captures Victorian hopes and anxieties with remarkable clarity, especially Canada’s fear of annexation, its imperial loyalties, and its dream of progress without social collapse. Curious, forceful, and historically revealing, The Dominion in 1983 offers modern readers a fascinating early specimen of speculative fiction and a vivid glimpse of how one nineteenth-century imagination pictured Canada’s destiny, power, danger, and moral future in language still strangely alive today for readers now everywhere.

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The Dominion in 1983 details how Canada might have looked if it was still part of the British Empire in 1983. It is a similar book to The Prince, or 1985 and should be held up as a great work on Government and Political Science. Many of its ideas on how government should be organised are truly inspired. One such idea is that Government has no need to tax its people, as it conducts itself as a shrewd invester in business.

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