... of East-West as a vehicle for a cosmopolitan spiritual vision. An extravagant worldwide journey in 1935-36 from California to England, the Continent, the Middle East, and ultimately to his home city of Calcutta solidified his reputation as a “global guru.” The chapter also explores his syncretism...

..., this introduction demonstrates the alternative intimate forms and temporalities central to New England regionalism's history-making project. It explicates how regionalist writers placed the unmarried daughter at the center of New England history, representing her as cosmopolitan, mobile, and queer. In foregrounding...

... contribution to a broader society. It considers debates and disagreements over whether the old madrasa curriculum should be retained, altered or blended with another comprised of modern disciplines. It also examines the question of Muslim identity as it relates to Islamic cosmopolitanism and Islamic...

...This chapter explores the relationship between shifting notions of literary cosmopolitanism, emerging discourse about internationalism, and the concept of world-salvation. It looks at the efforts of intellectuals and elite literary figures to articulate the role of the state in an increasingly...

... of racism, spatial segregation, and mainstream “cosmopolitanism” back to the earliest encounters between the Cherokee, African Americans, and white settlers. For more than three centuries, Chattanooga has been a site for multiracial interaction and community building; yet today public leaders have...

... Labor Cosmopolitanism By the turn of the twentieth century, city boosters had refined their interracial harmony pitch to investors. The City Guide published in 1900 meant to attract capital into the “Dynamo of Dixie” by similarly stressing the economic, social, and cultural...

...This chapter shifts focus from Cairo to Alexandria, away from the anticolonial nationalism of the former toward a deliberate cosmopolitanism observable in the latter. From the reign of Muhammad Ali Pasha in 1805 until Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise in 1952, Alexandria was a veritable second capital...

... of people in the national and international crucibles where mixing, antagonism, and Darwinian struggle took place. American social life demanded a disposition of cosmopolitanism, which might be characterized as openness to other cultures and to cultural others, as well as to the global interconnectedness...

... cosmopolitanism shores up the boundaries of blackness in spite of, and because of, an increasingly multiethnic blackness, a multiracial America, and the multiracial New South. Atlanta and new urban South Black public consciousness Bravo television network Chicago as migration destination Daddy’s Little Girls...

... association with New York City's working-class “roughs” and his insistence that his poetry is explicitly cosmopolitan in nature. After outlining Whitman's struggles to resolve the tension between his patriotism and his cosmopolitanism, the chapter explains how “A Broadway Pageant” enabled him to articulate...

..., described as “country cosmopolitanism.” biracialism Eubanks Ralph middle class redemption regional consciousness rural life suburbs Taulbert Clifton Agrarians Vanderbilt Cook Samuel DuBois Delta Dykeman Wilma I’ll Still Take My Stand Smith Jordan Vernon modernity orthodoxy Smith Frank...

... ships Sociability Cosmopolitanism Trade Religious conflict Corruption Slave trade When the merchant, rancher, and slave trader Juan de Miralles first saw the massive British war fleet bearing down on his city in June 1762, he was already expecting it. Miralles was at sea, returning home to Havana...

... urban settlements and rural areas in the region, where they had contact with maroon blacks. These elastic, unbounded migrations proved to be journeys of historical consequence. The chapter explores how black ritual practitioners and their cosmopolitan practices of knowledge production about the natural...