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Varga Bálint <1983-> |
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Titolo |
The monumental nation : Magyar nationalism and symbolic politics in Fin-de-Siecle Hungary / / Bálint Varga |
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New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (300 pages) : illustrations, tables |
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Collana |
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Austrian and Habsburg Studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Nationalism - Hungary - History - 19th century |
Memorialization - Political aspects - Hungary |
Hungary Politics and government 1867-1918 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Terminology -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I A millennium-old past -- Chapter 1 The Challenge of Integration: Hungary in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 2 Anchoring a Millennium-Old Past in the Hungarian Minds -- Part II Cities -- Introduction -- 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 1 Tables -- Appendix 2 Name Locator -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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