Autorentext

Shiben Banerji is an associate professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Klappentext

The forgotten history of the occult foundations of the early twentieth-century global city.

Inhalt

• Prologue
• Chapter 1. Summoning Global Subjects: A Methodological Note
• Chapter 2. Unifying Science, 1905–1913: De Bazel’s World Capital and Andersen’s World-Centre
• Chapter 3. Financializing Debt, 1927–1933: Otlet and Le Corbusier’s CitÉ Mondiale
• Chapter 4. Saving Empire, 1924–1933: Besant’s World-Empire
• Chapter 5. Conserving Nature, 1920–1935: Griffin’s Castlecrag
• Chapter 6. Globalizing Democracy, 1938–1949: Mahony’s Magic of America
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index