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The Creation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: A Hungarian Perspective book cover

1st Edition

The Creation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy A Hungarian Perspective

Edited By Gábor Gyáni Copyright 2022
366 Pages
by Routledge

366 Pages
by Routledge

366 Pages
by Routledge
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Recent collection of essays discusses the historical event and the multifarious consequences of the 1867 Compromise (Ausgleich, Settlement), conducted between the Habsburg monarch, Francis Joseph and the Hungarian political ruling class. The whole story has usually been narrated from a plainly Cisleithanian viewpoint. The present volume, the product of Hungarian historians, gives an insight into... Read more

Introduction. Hungary’s Contribution to the Creation of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy

Gábor Gyáni

Part 1: Experience, Memory and Historiography

1. From Concession to Catastrophe? On the Relationship Between the 1867 Compromise and Trianon

Iván Bertényi, Jr.

2. The Symbolic World of 1867

András Cieger

3. Nation State Building with "Peaceful Equalizing" and the Hungarian Historical Consciousness

Gábor Gyáni

4. Long Swings in the Historiography of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy

György Kövér

Part 2: Ideas and Institutions

5. Who is the Father of the Compromise?

Ágnes Deák

6. Between Patriotism and Ethnicity. Hardships of Defining the Modern Concept of a Hungarian Nation at the mid-19th Century

László L. Lajtai

7. Parallel Nation-Building in Transylvania and the Question of the Unification with Hungary prior to 1867

Judit Pál

8. The Compromise and the Potentials of the Constitutional Politics in Hungary

György Miru

Part 3: Emancipation and Identity

9. Jewish Emancipation as a Compromise

Miklós Konrád

10. The Influence of the Compromise on the Spirit of Ballhaus-platz. The Formation of the Foreign Affairs Officials’ National Identity.

Éva Somogyi

Part 4: Economic Consequences

11. Spatial Inequalities and Unbalanced Development in Hungary in the Dualist Era

Gábor Demeter

12. Austrian and Hungarian Imperial Ambitions. Race and Cooperation in the Maritime Commerce, 1867–1914

Veronika Eszik

Biography

Gábor Gyáni, Professor Emeritus at Research Centre for Humanities Institute of History and Lóránd Eötvös University Budapest, and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is social historian with a particular interest in the urban world, mentality history and historical theory.

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