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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812078803321

Autore

Varga Bálint <1983->

Titolo

The monumental nation : Magyar nationalism and symbolic politics in Fin-de-Siecle Hungary / / Bálint Varga

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn, , 2016

©2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Austrian and Habsburg Studies

Classificazione

NP 5907

Disciplina

320.5409439

Soggetti

Nationalism - Hungary - History - 19th century

Memorialization - Political aspects - Hungary

Hungary Politics and government 1867-1918

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.