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Book Review


The Boston Cosmopolitans: International Travel and American Arts and Letters. By Mark Rennella. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 280 pp. $74.95, ISBN 978-0-230-60382-0.)
The premise of The Boston Cosmopolitans is irrefutable: between the Civil War and World War I prominent Bostonian artists and intellectuals created a travel-based cosmopolitan culture that offered an alternative to a parochial American view of the world. Mark Rennella documents that culture in detail, illuminating some of the central figures, texts, and works of the period. His treatments of William James's pragmatic philosophy and the work of Henry Hobson Richardson, Charles Follen McKim, and Frederick Law Olmsted are particularly persuasive. . . .
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