Cosmopolitan Outsiders - 1st Edition - Imperial Inclusion, National Exclusion, Pan European Idea, 1900 1930

This book reconstructs the intellectual and social context of several influential proponents of European unity before and after the First World War. Through the lives and works of the well-known promoter of Pan-Europe, Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, and his less well-known predecessor, Alfred Hermann Fried, the book illuminates how transnational peace projects emerged from individuals who found themselves alienated from an increasingly nationalizing political climate within the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the new nation states of the interwar period. The book's most important intervention concerns the Jewish origins of crucial plans for European unity. It reveals that some of the most influential ideas on European culture and on the peaceful reorganization of an interconnected Europe emerged from Jewish milieus and as a result of Jewish predicaments.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Sorrels
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2016
• EAN: 9781137578198
• ISBN: 978-1-137-57819-8
• No. of pages: 267
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 217 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Progress in Mathematics; Springer Palgrave Macmillan; Progress in Mathematics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; B, Cultural History, History, History: specific events & topics, Social & cultural history, Political science & theory, Political History, World Politics, Civilization—History, Europe—History—1492-, History of Modern Europe