Balint Varga

The Monumental Nation

Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siècle Hungary

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Produktbeschreibung

In a quixotic episode in 19th-century Hungary's attempts to spread nationalist sentiments, monuments were erected near small towns commemorating the medieval conquest of the Carpathian Basin-the supposed origin of the Hungarian nation. This study recounts the troubled history of this plan...

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Produktdetails

• Austrian and Habsburg Studies
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9781789205190
• ISBN-10: 1789205190
• Artikelnr.: 56755695

Autorenporträt

Bálint Varga has been a research fellow at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2013. In 2015, he was awarded the R. John Rath Prize from the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Images
Acknowledgments
Terminology
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I: A MILLENNIUM-OLD PAST
Chapter 1. The Challenge of Integration: Hungary in the 19th Century
Chapter 2. Anchoring a Millennium-Old Past in the Hungarian Minds
PART II: CITIES
Chapter 3. Pressburg and Theben
Chapter 4. Nitra
Chapter 5. Munkács
Chapter 6. Brassó
Chapter 7. The Magyar Inland: Pannonhalma and Pusztaszer
Chapter 8. Semlin
Chapter 9. Local Conditions of National Integration
PART III: EVENTS
Chapter 10. Prologue: The Many Faces of the Millennium
Chapter 11. Signs for Eternity: The Millennial Monuments
Chapter 12. The Millennial Monuments in the Public Space, 1896-1918
Appendix I: Tables
Appendix II: Name locator
Bibliography
Index