Fabian is the English form of the late Roman name Fabianus. This was the name given to freed (emancipated) slaves which originally belonged to a Roman family with the family (gens=clan) name Fabius, that derived from the Latinfaba for the broad bean, an important food crop in the Roman Empire. It entered the English language with the Normans, but has never achieved the popularity of Fabien in France and Fabiano in Italy. Manumission is the act of freeing a slave, done at the will of the owner. ... The Roman Forum was the central area around which ancient Rome developed. ... GENS is an open source emulator for the Sega Genesis (Sega Megadrive). ... A clan is a group of people united by kinship and descent, which is defined by perceived descent from a common ancestor. ... Fabius Maximus coin, issued under Augustus. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Binomial name Vicia faba L. Vicia faba, the broad bean, fava bean, faba bean, horse bean, field bean or tic bean is a species of bean (Fabaceae) native to north Africa and southwest Asia, and extensively cultivated elsewhere. ... The Roman Empire was a phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by an autocratic form of government. ... The Normans (adapted from the name Northmen or Norsemen) were a mixture of the indigenous population of Neustria and Danish or Norwegian Vikings who began to occupy the northern area of France now known as Normandy in the latter half of the 9th century. ... Fabiano may refer to: Fabiano Pereira, Brazil footballer LuÃs Fabiano, Brazil footballer Nicolas Fabiano, French footballer Fabian Category: ...
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The British counterpart of the German Marxian revisionists and heavily influenced by the English Historical school, the upper-middle-class intellectual group - the "Fabian Society" - emerged in 1884 as a strand of latter-day utopian socialism.
At the core of the Fabian Society were the Webbs - Sidney J. Webb and his wife, Beatrice Potter Webb (married 1892).
Through the relentless outpouring of Fabian Essays and the charismatic appeal of the Webbs - coupled with the prowess of literary figures such as George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells - ensured that they would be indeed influential among British intellectuals and government officials.
Fabian socialists were critical of free trade and embraced protectionism in the interests of protecting the realm from foreign competition.
The Fabians also favored the nationalization of land, believing that rents collected by landowners were unearned, an idea which drew heavily from the work of American economist Henry George.
Many Fabians participated in the formation of the Labour Party in 1900, and the group's constitution, written by Shaw, borrowed heavily from the founding documents of the Fabian Society.
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