Affirming marginality, empire, and internationalism against racial hegemony, nationalizing state and ethnonationalism, Sorrels shows Jewish internationalism as pivotal to visions of European unity.” (Malachi Hacohen, Duke University) She explores the affinities between the Jewish pacifist, Alfred Fried, and the aristocratic founder of interwar Paneuropa, Coudenhove-Kalergi, and reveals their cosmopolitanism as grounded in their marginality: Jews and aristocrats alike found a rapidly racializing nationalism and the interwar nationalizing state inhospitable.

“Sorrels demonstrates the abiding legacy of Austria-Hungary for Europe. This book is as illuminating as it is timely.” (Roger Chickering, Georgetown University) She demonstrates the pivotal roles played by two marginalized Austrian figures, the Jewish pacifist Alfred Hermann Fried and the mixed-race Catholic aristocrat Richard Coudenove-Kalergi and she argues persuasively that social and political marginality itself shaped their thinking about European integration. “Katherine Sorrels’ book presents a thoughtful analysis of the ideological origins of European unity. Thorpe, Journal of Historical Geography, July, 2017) … ought to be required reading for historical and political geographers interested in these fields.” (Benjamin J. “Cosmopolitan Outsiders adds significantly to recent work asserting the relevance of early twentieth-century plans for European unity to the story of post-1945 integration, brings German scholarship on Fried and Coudenhove-Kalergi to an Anglophone audience, and makes intelligent, nuanced, and persuasive arguments that Pan-Europe must be understood with reference to a specifically Austrian Jewish internationalism, and that colonialism lay at its heart.

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