"Nationalist Clubs"

(noun)

An organized network of socialist groups, inspired by Edward Bellamy's utopian novel, Looking Backward. These clubs allied with the populist movement during the turbulent labor politics of the 1890's.

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Examples of "Nationalist Clubs" in the following topics:

  • Progress and Poverty

    • Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of over 160 "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy's political ideas.
    • These clubs worked to bring about Bellamy's predicted world.
    • By 1891, it was reported that no fewer than 162 Nationalist Clubs were in existence.
    • At this time, Bellamy began to promote united action between the various Nationalist Clubs and the emerging People's Party.
    • With key Nationalist Club activists largely absorbed into the apparatus of the People's Party, Bellamy abandoned politics and returned to literature.

  • Gronlund and Bellamy

    • Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of over 160 "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy's political ideas.
    • These clubs worked to bring about Bellamy's predicted world.
    • By 1891, it was reported that no fewer than 162 Nationalist Clubs were in existence.
    • At this time, Bellamy began to promote united action between the various Nationalist Clubs and the emerging People's Party.
    • With key Nationalist Club activists largely absorbed into the apparatus of the People's Party, Bellamy abandoned politics and returned to literature.

  • Socialism and the Unions

    • Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of more than 160 "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy's political ideas.
    • In spite of this, the book inspired legions of readers to establish these Nationalist Clubs, the first of which began in Boston in 1888.
    • By 1891, it was reported that no fewer than 162 Nationalist Clubs were in existence.
    • At this time, Bellamy began to promote united action between the various Nationalist Clubs and the emerging People's Party.
    • With key Nationalist Club activists largely absorbed into the apparatus of the People's Party, Bellamy abandoned politics and returned to literature.

  • The Rise of Japan

    • However, although Japan belonged the victors of World War I, the Japanese were excluded from the prestigious club of world powers and were instead grouped with smaller, less influential countries.
    • The rejection was an important factor in the coming years in turning Japan away from cooperation with West and towards nationalistic policies.
    • Various nationalist initiatives were intended to mobilize the Japanese society for a total war against the West.
    • In 1937, Japan invaded China, creating what was essentially a three-way war between Japan, Mao Zedong's communists, and Chiang Kai-shek's nationalists.

  • Italy and Germany

    • In both cases, nationalist rhetoric was critical to gaining popular support.
    • Upon taking power, Mussolini formed a legislative coalition with nationalists, liberals, and populists.
    • Another organization the Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB) was widely popular and provided young people with access to clubs, dances, sports facilities, radios, concerts, plays, circuses and outdoor hikes at little or no cost.
    • All civilian organizations, including agricultural groups, volunteer organizations, and sports clubs, had their leadership replaced with Nazi sympathizers or party members.

  • Canadian Painting in the 20th Century

    • In the 1930s, members of the Group of Seven decided to enlarge the club and formed the Canadian Group of Painters, made up of 28 artists from across the country.
    • Founded in 1938 in Montréal, Québec, the Eastern Group of Painters included Montréal artists whose common interest was painting as a means to create art for art's sake, as opposed to the espousal of a nationalist theory (which was the case with the Group of Seven).

  • National Pride

    • Art can be used to advance nationalistic goals by providing a state or nation with political and social legitimacy.
    • Art can be used to advance nationalistic goals by providing a state or nation with political and social legitimacy.
    • Nationalist movements for the separation of Finland and the kingdom of Bavaria from Germany proved successful, Czech and Serb nationalism created conflict, Welsh and Irish tongues experienced a poetic revival, and the Zionist movement both revived Hebrew and began immigration to Israel.
    • It is not uncommon for museums and art galleries to be owned by the state, thereby imparting biased and/or nationalistic world views on exhibitions.

  • Venn Diagrams (optional)

    • Five percent of the students work part time and belong to a club.
    • Let C = student belongs to a club and PT = student works part time.
    • The probability that the student belongs to a club.
    • The probability that the student belongs to a club AND works part time.
    • The probability that the student belongs to a club OR works part time.

  • Nationalists of the 1780s

    • Long dissatisfied with the weak Articles of Confederation, nationalists drafted a resolution to form the Annapolis Convention.

  • The Working Woman

    • Indignant that she and other women were denied admittance to a banquet honoring Charles Dickens in 1868 at the all-male New York Press Club simply because they were women, she resolved to organize a club for women only.
    • Croly proposed a conference in New York that brought together delegates from 61 women's clubs.
    • The constitution was adopted in 1890, and the General Federation of Women's Clubs was born.
    • The GFWC also counts international clubs among its members.
    • Although women's clubs were founded primarily as a means of self-education and development for women, the emphasis of most local clubs gradually changed to one of community service and improvement.