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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Lendvai |
| ISBN: | 0691114064 9780691114064 9780691119694 0691119694 |
| OCLC Number: | 51986780 |
| Language Note: | Translated from the German. |
| Notes: | Translation of: Die Ungarn. Chronology: p. 533-556. |
| Description: | xii, 572 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | "Heathen Barbarians" overrun Europe: evidence from St Gallen -- Land acquisition or conquest? The question of Hungarian identity -- From Magyar Mayhem to the Christian Kingdom of the Arpads -- The struggle for continuity and freedom -- The Mongol invasion of 1241 and its consequences -- Hungary's rise to great power status under foreign kings -- The Heroic Age of the Hunyadis and the Turkish danger -- The long road to the catastrophe of Mohacs -- The disaster of Ottoman rule -- Transylvania---the stronghold of Hungarian sovereignty -- Gabor Bethlen---Vassal, patriot and European -- Zrinyi of Zrinski? One hero for two nations -- The Kuruc Leader Thokoly: adventurer or traitor? -- Ferenc Rakoczi's fight for freedom from the Habsburgs -- Myth and historiography: an idol through the ages -- Hungary in the Habsburg Shadow -- The fight against the "Hatted King" -- Abbot Martinovics and the Jacobin plot. Count Istvan Szechenyi and the "Reform Era": the "Greatest Hungarian" -- Lajos Kossuth and Sandor Petofi: symbols of 1848 -- Victories, defeat and collapse: the Lost War of Independence, 1849 -- Kossuth the Hero versus "Judas" Gorgey: "Good" and "Bad" in sacrificial mythology -- Who was Captain Gusev? Russian "Freedom Fighters" between Minsk and Budapest -- Elisabeth, Andrassy and Bismarck: Austria and Hungary on the road to reconciliation -- Victory in defeat: the compromise and the consequences of dualism -- Total blindness: the Hungarian sense of mission and the nationalities -- The "Golden Age" of the millennium: modernization with drawbacks -- "Magyar Jew or Jewish Magyar?" a unique symbiosis -- "Will Hungary be German or Magyar?" The Germans' peculiar role -- From the Great War to the "Dictatorship of Despair": the Red Count and Lenin's agent -- The Admiral on a White Horse: Trianon and the Death Knel of St Stephen's realm -- Adventurers, counterfeiters, claimants to the throne: Hungary as troublemaker in the Danube Basin -- Marching in step with Hitler: triumph and fall. From the persecution of Jews to mob rule -- Victory in defeat: 1945-1990 -- "Everyone is a Hungarian": geniuses and artists -- Summing-up. |
| Other Titles: | Ungarn. |
| Responsibility: | Paul Lendvai. |
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"[A] glorious, immensely readable book."--Economist "A pleasure to read... Mr. Lendvai has done a remarkable job. His book is easily the best history of Hungary in English... What's remarkable is how many extraordinary individuals, admirable and otherwise, we come across in this small nation's history."--Stephen Goode, Washington Times "The writing of national histories is ... justified by the erudition and intellectual brilliance of the [author]. To this one must add, as a special attraction, the charm, wit and healthy cynicism of The Hungarians."--Istvan Deak, Times Literary Supplement "[R]ewarding, entertaining, and well written... [F]ar more substantial than the witty musings to be found, for example, in Luigi Barzini's The Italians... No one who is interested in Hungary should miss reading this book."--Nicolas Parsons, Hungarian Quarterly "An outstanding storyteller. [Lendvai] not only presents scientifically based facts and analysis but also tells the reader a story... A compact overview of Hungarian history, a wonderful collection of biographical sketches and a subtle description of the 'Hungarian temperament'."--Neue Zurcher Zeitung "Excellently researched and masterfully constructed, this should become a standard work... The book reads almost like a novel with historical background... Most warmly recommended."--Die Presse "An exhaustive history of the Hungarian people... The author has written a sympathetic account of Hungarian history. Yet the book also exposes the blemishes along with the heroism... For those interested in the history of a art of Europe that has been shrouded in mystery and cliche, it's a helpful handbook."--Anne Gyulai, The Montreal Gazette "It is history's destiny to stare helplessly as the past's effects on facts have them act no differently on our minds and bodies than do fictions. In his loving rendering of Hungary's troubled saga, Lendvai has shown us how our knowledge and memory are a tangle of both threads."--Norman Madarasz, The European Legacy Read more...
