The Boston Cosmopolitans International Travel and American Arts and Letters

This book traces the progression of cosmopolitanism from the private experience of a group of artists and intellectuals who lived and worked in Boston between 1865 and 1915 to finished works of monumental art that shaped public space.

A researcher of cultural and business history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Mark Rennella has focused his work on the impact of travel on U.S. history. He has taught at Harvard University's History and Literature Program, the Harvard Extension School, and the University of Miami. He has published articles in Italian Americana, Reviews in American History, and most recently in the Journal of Social History. He is now contributing to a study of U.S. aviation, Lords of the Skies: Leadership in the Airline Industry, 1920-2000. A graduate of Amherst College, the University of Miami, and Brandeis University, Mark lives in Chelmsford, Massachusetts as the proud father of two sons and works as a business researcher at BSG Concours.