Modern Hungarian Society in the Making

Modern Hungarian Society in the Making

  • Autor: Gerő, András
  • Editor: Central European University Press
  • ISBN: 9789633864883
  • Lloc de publicació:  Budapest , Hungary
  • Any de publicació digital: 1995
  • Mes: Juny
  • Pàgines: 290
  • DDC: 306/.09439
  • Idioma: Anglés
Illuminates the problems connected with Hungary's transition to a civil society while providing insights into the development of political culture and the rise of civil and national consequences.
  • cover
  • front matter
    • title page
    • copyright page
  • Contents
  • List of illustrations
  • Preface
  • Part One Towards a civil society
    • 1 The Making of Modem Hungary
    • 2 Industrial Development in the Eyes of Opposition Reformers of the 1840s
    • 3 The Emergence ofBourgeois Thought: Arguments in Favour of the Polish Uprising at the Hungarian Diet of 1832-6
    • 4 Count Széchenyi and the Conflicts of Modemity
    • 5 Liberalism, 1830-67: Reformer Roles and Social Awareness
    • 6 Politics and National Minorities, 1848-9
  • Part Two The emergence of civil society at the crossroads of liberalism and conservatism
    • 7 Mamelukes and Zoltans: Elected Representatives under the Dual Monarchy
    • 8 The Two Houses of Parliament: History of a Changing Atmosphere
    • 9 Liberalism, Conservatism and Political Legitimacy under the Dual Monarchy
    • 10 Liberals, Anti-Semites and Jews at the Birth of Modem Hungary
  • Part Three National consciousness and the making of cults
    • 11 The Millennium Monument
    • 12 A Hungarian Cult: Queen Elisabeth ofBavaria
    • 13 March the Fifteenth
  • Biographical index
  • Back cover