Lineages of the global city : occult modernism and the spiritualization of democracy /

"In his new manuscript, Shiben Banerji examines the movement toward "global cities" in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly as an outcropping of occult philosophies like Theosophy that worked toward what practitioners called "universal brotherhood." Drawing...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Banerji, Shiben (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2025.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Lateral exchanges.
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Table of Contents:
  • Summoning global subjects
  • Unifying science, 1905-1913 : De Bazel's World Capital and Andersen's World-Centre
  • Financializing debt, 1927
  • 1933 : the Otlet-Corbusier Cité Mondiale
  • Saving empire, 1924-1933 : Besant's world-empire
  • Conserving nature, 1920-1935 : Griffin's Castlecrag
  • Globalizing democracy, 1938-1949 : Mahony's Magic of America.