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Hungarian Culture and Politics in the Habsburg Monarchy 1711-1848
By Gábor Vermes
Copyright 2014
396 Pages
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Central European University Press
This book describes and analyzes the critical period of 1711-1848 within Hungary from novel points of view, including close analyses of the proceedings of Hungarian diets. Contrary to conventional interpretations, the study, stressing the strong continuity of traditionalism in Hungarian thought, society, and politics, argues that Hungarian liberalism did not begin to flower in any substantial way... Read more
Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter 1 A Portrait of 18th Century Hungary, Chapter 2 The Joy and the Agony of Standing Still, Chapter 3 The Enlightenment and Cultural Sensibilities: A Comparative Historical Perspective, Chapter 4 The Slow Erosion of Traditionalism, Chapter 5 The Ambiguous Journey Toward Reforms, Chapter 6 The Hungarian Age of Reform in the 1830s, Chapter 7 The Hungarian Age of Reform in the 1840s, Epilogue, Works Cited, Index
Biography
Gábor Vermes (1933–2014) was Professor Emeritus of the Federated Department of History at Rutgers University. He is the author of István Tisza: The Liberal Vision and Conservative Statecraft of a Magyar Nationalist (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985).
