"What emerges as common features of these cities mark their unique contribution to an understanding of cosmopolitanism as ideal and practice, raising crucial questions about who is or can be cosmopolitan and where cosmopolitanism is in the world. Loosely connected by their orientation to both Europe and Asia, the shifting valences of this outlook over time have important consequences for the cities' respective cosmopolitan-ness, as well as the meaning and nature of cosmopolitanism." · Urban History "In their new book, Caroline Humphrey and Vera Skvirskaja have excelled in building a ...magnificent world of cultural identities without ends. The authors and editors offer a compelling exploration of the multilayered ideas about what makes "us"and "them"in six cities: Odessa, Tbilisi, Warsaw, Venice, Thessalonica, and Dushanbe...Humphrey and Skvirskaja take the deeper, anthropological, microscopic view of the everyday experiences of people. And in this they do an excellent job." · ...

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