The Cosmopolite
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Page : 260 pages
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Release : 1866
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Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 1866
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Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 1812
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Author : Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
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Page : 166 pages
File Size : 22,53 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780990976363
The cosmopolites are literally "citizens of the world," from the Greek word kosmos, meaning "world," and polites, or "citizen." Garry Davis, aka World Citizen No. 1, and creator of the World Passport, was a former Broadway actor and World War II bomber pilot who renounced his American citizenship in 1948 as a form of protest against nationalism, sovereign borders, and war. Today there are cosmopolites of all stripes, rich or poor, intentional or unwitting, from 1-percenters who own five passports thanks to tax-havens to theBidoon, the stateless people of countries like the United Arab Emirates. Journalist Atossa Abrahamian, herself a cosmopolite, travels around the globe to meet the people who have come to embody an increasingly fluid, borderless world. Along the way you are introduced to a colorful cast of characters, including passport-burning atheist hackers, the new Knights of Malta, California libertarian "seasteaders," who are residents of floating city-states,Bidoons, who have been forced to be citizens of the island nation Comoros, entrepreneurs in the business of buying and selling passports, cosmopolites who live on a luxury cruise ship calledThe World, and shady businessmen with ties to Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad.
Author : John Richard Digby Beste
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Page : 656 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 1839
Category : England
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Author : Jon Binnie
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 29,18 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415344920
Renowned editors and contributors have come together to produce one of the first books to tackle cosmopolitanism from a geographical perspective. It employs a range of approaches to provide a valuable grounded treatment.
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Page : 856 pages
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Release : 1917
Category : American literature
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Page : 234 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 1909
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Author : O.Henry
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 21,76 MB
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Fiction
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O. Henry's 'Cosmopolite in a Cafe' centers on the narrator's interaction with a man named E. Rushmore Coglan. Story is set in a café at midnight. The elegant café, described as having ''marble-topped tables'' and ''leather-upholstered wall seats,'' is filled with ''people speaking in an exquisite visible chorus of taste, economy, opulence or art.'' The café's owner appears to be aiming for the ambiance of a Parisian café. O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings.
Author : Elijah Anderson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 31,57 MB
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0393340511
A Yale sociology professor discusses how everyday people meet the demands of urban living through islands of civility he calls "cosmopolitan canopies" and describes how activities carried out under this canopy can ease racial tensions and promote harmony.
Author : Jason D Hill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,76 MB
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1442210559
The philosopher and author of Beyond Blood Identities offers a new paradigm of persona freedom and moral self-possession. As a Jamaican immigrant arriving in the United States at the age of twenty, Jason Hill noticed how often Americans identified themselves in terms of race and ethnicity. He observed, for example, the reluctance of West Indians to joins 'black causes' for fear of losing their identity. He began to ask himself what sort of world he wanted to live in, a quest that in time led him to the idea of the cosmopolitan. In Becoming a Cosmopolitan, Jason D. Hill argues that we need a new understanding of the self. He revives the idea of the cosmopolitan, the person who identifies the world as home. Arguing for the right to forget where we came from, Hill proposes a new moral cosmopolitanism for the new millennium.