Modern Hungarian Society in the Making / / András Gerő.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• VerfasserIn: Gerő, András,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [1995]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)

Illuminates the problems connected with Hungary's transition to a civil society while providing insights into the development of political culture and the rise of civil and national consequences.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Part One. Towards a civil society -- 1 The Making of Modem Hungary -- 2 Industrial Development in the Eyes of Opposition Reformers of the 1840s -- 3 The Emergence of Bourgeois Thought: Arguments in Favour of the Polish Uprising at the Hungarian Diet of 1832-6 -- 4 Count Széchenyi and the Conflicts of Modemity -- 5 Liberalism, 1830-67: Reformer Roles and Social Awareness -- 6 Politics and National Minorities, 1848-9 -- Part Two. The emergence of civil society at the crossroads of liberalism and conservatism -- 7 Mamelukes and Zoltans: Elected Representatives under the Dual Monarchy -- 8 The Two Houses of Parliament: History of a Changing Atmosphere -- 9 Liberalism, Conservatism and Political Legitimacy under the Dual Monarchy -- 10 Liberals, Anti-Semites and Jews at the Birth of Modem Hungary -- Part Three. National consciousness and the making of cults -- 11 The Millennium Monument -- 12 A Hungarian Cult: Queen Elisabeth of Bavaria -- 13 March the Fifteenth -- Biographical index