Modern Hungarian Society in the Making: The Unfinished Experience

292 Pages·1995·48.619 MB·English

by  András Gerö, James Patterson, Eniko Koncz

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Modern Hungarian Society
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Modern Hungarian Society
in the Making
The Unfinished Experience
ANDRAS GERO
TRANSLATED BY JAMES PATTERSON AND ENIKO KONCZ
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First published in Hungarian as Magyar polgarosodasin 1993 by
Atlantisz Konyvkiado (Medvetanc), Budapest
© Atlantisz Konyvkiado, Gero Andras 1993
First published in English as
Modern Hungarian Society in the Making: The Unfinished Experience in 1995
Second printing 1997
English translation copyright © CEU Press 1995
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ISBN 1-85866-023-8 Hardback
ISBN 1-85866-024-6 Paperback
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Printed and bound in Hungary by Cerberus Kft., Budapest
Contents
List of illustrations vi
Preface ix
Part One Towards a civil society
1 The Making of Modem Hungary 3
2 Industrial Development in the Eyes of Opposition Reformers
of the 1840s 19
3 The Emergence of Bourgeois Thought: Arguments in Favour
of the Polish Uprising at the Hungarian Diet of 1832-6 44
4 Count Szechenyi and the Conflicts of Modernity 60
5 Liberalism, 1830-67: Reformer Roles and Social Awareness 71
6 Politics and National Minorities, 1848-9 92
Part Two The emergence of civil society at the crossroads of liberalism
and conservatism
7 Mamelukes and Zoltans: Elected Representatives under the Dual
Monarchy 109
8 The Two Houses of Parliament: History of a Changing
Atmosphere 145
9 Liberalism, Conservatism and Political Legitimacy under
the Dual Monarchy 169
10 Liberals, Anti-Semites and Jews at the Birth of Modem Hungary 182
Part Three National consciousness and the making of cults
11 The Millennium Monument 203
12 A Hungarian Cult: Queen Elisabeth of Bavaria 223
13 March the Fifteenth 238
Biographical index 251
List of illustrations
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Cover. Two faces of the Hungarian gentry around the turn of the century
1 Modem Hungary (the new parliament building in 1906) 8
2 Count Istvan Szechenyi, 1835 61
3 Ferenc Deak, c. 1872 73
4 Lajos Kossuth, 1877 85
5 Kalman Tisza, c. 1890 114
6 The old parliamentary chamber in the Sandor Utca Palace 147
7 Istvan Tisza, c. 1915 162
8 The police invade parliament 164
9 Franz Joseph, King of Hungary, 1898 225
10 Queen Elisabeth of Bavaria, 1867 232
11 Celebration of the spirit of the nation (Bela Barabas addresses
the crowds in front of the National Museum, 15 March 1906) 244
The publishers are grateful to the Magyar Nemzeti Muzeum Fenykeptara
(Historical Photo Archive of the Hungarian National Museum) for permis-
sion to reproduce the photographs in this book. Special thanks go to Katalin
Jalsovszky and Emoke Tomsics, who made the selection.
For my son, Ivan
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