Hungary's long nineteenth century : : constitutional and democratic traditions in a European perspective : collected studies / / László Péter ; edited by Miklós Lojkó.

• Superior document: Central and Eastern Europe : regional perspectives in global context, v. 1
• Author: Peter, L. 1929-2008.
• TeilnehmendeR: Lojkó, Miklós.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Central and Eastern Europe ; 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (499 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

László Péter, whose fourteen carefully selected essays are edited in this posthumous collection, was an indefatigable seeker of the most appropriate terminological modelling and narrative reconstruction of Hungary’s late nineteenth and early twentieth century progress from an essentially feudal enti...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó
• Introduction / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó
• The Holy Crown of Hungary, Visible and Invisible / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó
• Ius Resistendi in Hungary / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó
• The Irrepressible Authority of Werbőczy’s Tripartitum / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó
• Montesquieu’s Paradox on Freedom and Hungary’s Constitutions 1790–1990 / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó
• Language, the Constitution, and the Past in Hungarian Nationalism / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó
• Lajos Kossuth and the Conversion of the Constitution / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó
• The Dualist Character of the 1867 Hungarian Settlement / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó
• The Autocratic Principle of the Law and Civil Rights in Nineteenth-Century Hungary / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó
• The Aristocracy, the Gentry and Their Parliamentary Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Hungary / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó
• Law XLIV of 1868 ‘On the Equality of Nationality Rights’ and the Language of Local Administration / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó
• The Army Question in Hungarian Politics 1867–1918 / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó
• Intellectuals and the Future in the Habsburg Monarchy 1890–1914 (with Robert Pynsent) / Robert B. Pynsent
• Church-State Relations and Civil Society in Hungary: A Historical Perspective / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó
• R. W. Seton-Watson’s Changing Views on the National Question of the Habsburg Monarchy and the European Balance of Power / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó
• Index / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó.