The Hungarians : : A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat /

The Hungarians : : A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat / / Paul Lendvai.

An updated new edition of a classic history of the Hungarians from their earliest origins to todayIn this absorbing and comprehensive history, Paul Lendvai tells the fascinating story of how the Hungarians, despite a string of catastrophes and their linguistic and cultural isolation, have survived a...

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VerfasserIn:
Lendvai, Paul,
MitwirkendeR:
Major, Ann,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (592 p.) :; 57 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword to the New Edition
  • The Hungarians
  • Introduction
  • 1. “Heathen Barbarians” overrun Europe: Evidence from St Gallen
  • 2. Land Acquisition or Conquest? The Question of Hungarian Identity
  • 3. From Magyar Mayhem to the Christian Kingdom of the Árpáds
  • 4. The Struggle for Continuity and Freedom
  • 5. The Mongol Invasion of 1241 and its Consequences
  • 6. Hungary’s Rise to Great Power Status under Foreign Kings
  • 7. The Heroic Age of the Hunyadis and the Turkish Danger
  • 8. The Long Road to the Catastrophe of Mohács
  • 9. The Disaster of Ottoman Rule
  • 10. Transylvania—the Stronghold of Hungarian Sovereignty
  • 11. Gábor Bethlen—Vassal, Patriot and European
  • 12. Zrinyi or Zrinski? One Hero for Two Nations
  • 13. The Rebel Leader Thököly: Adventurer or Traitor
  • 14. Ferenc Rákóczi’s Fight for Freedom from the Habsburgs
  • 15. Myth and Historiography: an Idol through the Ages
  • 16. Hungary in the Habsburg Shadow
  • 17. The Fight against the “Hatted King”
  • 18. Abbot Martinovics and the Jacobin Plot: a Secret Agent as Revolutionary Martyr
  • 19. Count István Széchenyi and the “Reform Era”: Rise and Fall of the “Greatest Hungarian”
  • 20. Lajos Kossuth and Sándor Petöfi: Symbols of 1848
  • 21. Victories, Defeat and Collapse: The Lost War of Independence, 1849
  • 22. Kossuth the Hero versus “Judas” Görgey: “Good” and “Bad” in Sacrificial Mythology
  • 23. Who was Captain Gusev? Russian “Freedom Fighters” between Minsk and Budapest
  • 24. Elisabeth, Andrássy and Bismarck: Austria and Hungary on the Road to Reconciliation
  • 25. Victory in Defeat: The Compromise and the Consequences of Dualism
  • 26. Total Blindness: The Hungarian Sense of Mission and the Nationalities
  • 27. The “Golden Age” of the Millennium: Modernization with Drawbacks
  • 28. “Magyar Jew or Jewish Magyar?” A Unique Symbiosis
  • 29. “Will Hungary become German or Magyar?” The Germans’ Peculiar Role
  • 30. From the Great War to the “Dictatorship of Despair”: the Red Count and Lenin’s Agent
  • 31. The Admiral on a White Horse: Trianon and the Death Knell of St Stephen’s Realm
  • 32. Adventurers, Counterfeiters, Claimants to the Throne: Hungary as Troublemaker in the Danube Basin
  • 33. Marching in Step with Hitler: Triumph and Fall. From the Persecution of Jews to Mob Rule
  • 34. Victory in Defeat: 1945–1990
  • 35. The Failure of the Democratic Experiment
  • 36. Viktor Orbán’s “Führerdemocracy”
  • Notes
  • Index

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