A Cultural History of Hungary: In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Author: László Kósa
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13:
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The Monumental Nation
Author: Bálint Varga
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2016-12-01
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1785333143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the 1860s onward, Habsburg Hungary attempted a massive project of cultural assimilation to impose a unified national identity on its diverse populations. In one of the more quixotic episodes in this “Magyarization,” large monuments were erected near small towns commemorating the medieval conquest of the Carpathian Basin—supposedly, the moment when the Hungarian nation was born. This exactingly researched study recounts the troubled history of this plan, which—far from cultivating national pride—provoked resistance and even hostility among provincial Hungarians. Author Bálint Varga thus reframes the narrative of nineteenth-century nationalism, demonstrating the complex relationship between local and national memories.
A Cultural History of Hungary: In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Author: László Kósa
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9789631349450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnother Hungary
Author: Robert Nemes
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2016-06-01
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 0804799121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnother Hungary tells the stories of eight remarkable individuals: an aristocrat, merchant, engineer, teacher, journalist, rabbi, tobacconist, and writer. All eight came from the same woebegone corner of prewar Hungary. Their biographies illuminate how the region's residents made sense of economic underdevelopment, ethnic diversity, and relations between Christians and Jews. Taken together, their stories create a unique picture of the troubled history of Eastern Europe, viewed not from the capital cities, but from the small towns and villages. Through these eight lives, Another Hungary investigates the wider processes that remade Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century. It asks: How did people make sense of the dramatic changes, from the advent of the railroad to the outbreak of the First World War? How did they respond to the army of political ideologies that marched through this region: liberalism, socialism, nationalism, antisemitism, and Zionism? To what extent did people in the provinces not just react to, but influence what was happening in the centers of political power? This collective biography confirms that nineteenth-century Hungary was no earthly paradise. But it also shows that the provinces produced men and women with bold ideas on how to change their world.
Forging Architectural Tradition
Author: Dragan Damjanović
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2022-03-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1800733372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchitectural conservation and national narratives -- Styles for the nation and state -- Appropriation of heritage(s).
How They Lived
Author: András Koerner
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2015-10-10
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9633861489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book documents the physical aspects of the lives of Hungarian Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the way they looked, the kind of neighborhoods and apartments they lived in, and the places where they worked. The many historical photographs—there is at least one picture per page—and related text offers a virtual cross section of Hungarian society, a diverse group of the poor, the middle-class, and the wealthy. Regardless of whether they lived integrated within the majority society or in separate communities, whether they were assimilated Jews or Hasidim, they were an important and integral part of the nation. We have surprisingly few detailed accounts of their lifestyles—the world knows more about the circumstances of their deaths than about the way they lived. Much like piecing together an ancient sculpture from tiny shards found in an excavation, Koerner tries to reconstruct the many diverse lifestyles using fragmentary information and surviving photos.
The Will to Survive
Author: Sir Bryan Cartledge
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780231702256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite its relatively small size, Hungary has shown remarkable resilience in its long and difficult history, resisting hostile neighbors and the pressures of two massive neighboring empires. Subjected to invasion, occupation, and frequent historical tragedy, the country has nevertheless survived and even flourished, becoming a stable, sovereign democratic republic with a seat in the European Union. Drawing on his experiences as ambassador to Hungary during the declining years of János Kádár's communist regime, Bryan Cartledge recreates a rich portrait of the country's political, economic, and cultural development. Spanning eleven hundred years, his account begins with the arrival of the Magyars in the ninth century and concludes with the acceptance of Hungary into NATO and the EU. Cartledge recounts Hungary's medieval greatness and its defeats at the hands of the Mongols, Turks, and Nazis. He revisits the nation's unsuccessful struggle for independence and the massive deprivations it suffered after the First World War. He also investigates Hungary's disastrous alliance with the Nazis, motivated by a hope for political redress. Cartledge provides startling insight into the experience of Soviet-imposed communism, which culminated in the brutally suppressed revolution of 1956. Exploiting his intimate knowledge of Hungary and its rich archival sources, he explains how a country can lose almost every war it has engaged in and still forge ahead stronger than before.
Multiple Antiquities - Multiple Modernities
Author: Gábor Klaniczay
Publisher: Campus Verlag
Published: 2011-09
Total Pages: 613
ISBN-13: 3593391015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAntiquity, as the term has been understood and used over the centuries by scholars, political and religious figures, and ordinary citizens, is far from a single, monolithic concept. Rather than reflecting a stable, shared understanding about the past and its meaning, the idea of antiquity is instead varying and multiple, taking on different meanings and deployed to different effects depending on the context in which it is being considered. In this volume, historians from a wide range of specialties offer a comparative assessment of the multiple perceptions of antiquity that have shaped modern European cultures and national identities, deploying a new methodological approach, histoire croisée, which considers these questions in light of the development of cultural diversity across Europe.
A Taste of the Past
Author: András Koerner
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781584655954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA beautifully illustrated re-creation of Jewish Hungarian cuisine and life in the nineteenth century.
Austrian Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Author: David F. Good
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781571810458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume, the first of its kind in English, brings together scholars from different disciplines who address the history of women in Austria, as well as their place in contemporary Austrian society, from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, thus shedding new light on contemporary Austria and in the context of its rich and complicated history.
