Download or read book Cosmopolitan Culture written by Bonnie Menes Kahn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-06-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, Cosmopolitan Culture is Bonnie Menes Kahn's exploration of the gilt-edged dream of a tolerant city. "The author attempts to identify common features of great cities, past and present. Consequently, the reader is shuttled breathlessly from Babylon to Constantinople to Vienna to New York with brief side junkets. Kahn concludes that common characteristics of the great city meaning and purpose, tolerance, etc.created an environment where outsiders felt welcome to join the cosmopolitan culture and in the process strengthen it." —Library Journal