The Monumental Nation

Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siècle Hungary
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-519-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 441 g

Reihe: Austrian and Habsburg Studies

From the 1860s onward, Habsburg Hungary attempted a massive project of cultural assimilation to impose a unified national identity on its diverse populations. In one of the more quixotic episodes in this “Magyarization,” large monuments were erected near small towns commemorating the medieval conquest of the Carpathian Basin—supposedly, the moment when the Hungarian nation was born. This exactingly researched study recounts the troubled history of this plan, which—far from cultivating national pride—provoked resistance and even hostility among provincial Hungarians. Author Bálint Varga thus reframes the narrative of nineteenth-century nationalism, demonstrating the complex relationship between local and national memories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Varga, Bálint

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Images

Acknowledgments

Terminology

Abbreviations

Introduction

PART I: A MILLENNIUM-OLD PAST

Chapter 1. The Challenge of Integration: Hungary in the 19th Century

Chapter 2. Anchoring a Millennium-Old Past in the Hungarian Minds

PART II: CITIES

Chapter 3. Pressburg and Theben

Chapter 4. Nitra

Chapter 5. Munkács

Chapter 6. Brassó

Chapter 7. The Magyar Inland: Pannonhalma and Pusztaszer

Chapter 8. Semlin

Chapter 9. Local Conditions of National Integration

PART III: EVENTS

Chapter 10. Prologue: The Many Faces of the Millennium

Chapter 11. Signs for Eternity: The Millennial Monuments

Chapter 12. The Millennial Monuments in the Public Space, 1896–1918

Appendix I: Tables

Appendix II: Name locator

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Varga, Bálint
Bálint Varga has been a research fellow at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2013. In 2015, he was awarded the R. John Rath Prize from the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota.