The Monumental Nation : : Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siècle Hungary / / Bálint Varga.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Varga, Bálint,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies ; 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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