Research Catalog

Title

Modern Hungarian society in the making : the unfinished experience / András Gerő ; translated by James Patterson and Enikő Koncz.

Author

Gerő, András.

Publication

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 1995.

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Details

Description

xii, 276 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Uniform Title

Magyar polgárosodás. English

Alternative Title

Magyar polgárosodás.

Subject

• Hungary > Politics and government > 19th century
• Hungary > Social conditions
• Middle class > Hungary > History > 19th century
• Social classes > Hungary > History > 19th century

Note

• Translation from the Hungarian: Magyar polgárosodás.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Pt. 1. Towards a civil society. 1. The Making of Modern Hungary. 2. Industrial Development in the Eyes of Opposition Reformers of the 1840s. 3. The Emergence of Bourgeois Thought: Arguments in Favour of the Polish Uprising at the Hungarian Diet of 1832-6. 4. Count Szechenyi and the Conflicts of Modernity. 5. Liberalism, 1830-67: Reformer Roles and Social Awareness. 6. Politics and National Minorities, 1848-9 -- Pt. 2. 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 Modern Hungary -- Pt. 3. National consciousness and the making of cults. 11. The Millennium Monument. 12. A Hungarian Cult: Queen Elisabeth of Bavaria. 13. March the Fifteenth.

ISBN

• 1858660238 (hbk)
• 1858660246 (pbk)

LCCN

gb 95098344

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library