The Hungarians : a thousand years of victory in defeat /

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"In 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 as a nation for more than one thousand years. Now with a new preface and a new chapter that b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lendvai, Paul, 1929- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Major, Ann, 1928- (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Edición:New edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary
Hungary > History.
Hongrie > Histoire.
Hungary
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Heathen Barbarians" overrun Europe: Evidence from St Gallen
  • Land Acquisition or Conquest? The Question of Hungarian Identity
  • From Magyar Mayhem to the Christian Kingdom of the Árpáds
  • The Struggle for Continuity and Freedom
  • The Mongol Invasion of 1241 and its Consequences
  • Hungary's Rise to Great Power Status under Foreign Kings
  • The Heroic Age of the Hunyadis and the Turkish Danger
  • The Long Road to the Catastrophe of Mohács
  • The Disaster of Ottoman Rule
  • Transylvania: the Stronghold of Hungarian Sovereignty
  • Gábor Bethlen: Vassal, Patriot and European
  • Zrinyi or Zrinski? One Hero for Two Nations
  • The Rebel Leader Thököly: Adventurer or Traitor?
  • Ferenc Rákóczi's Fight for Freedom from the Habsburgs
  • Myth and Historiography: an Idol through the Ages
  • Hungary in the Habsburg Shadow
  • The Fight against the "Hatted King"
  • Abbot Martinovics and the Jacobin Plot: a Secret Agent as Revolutionary Martyr
  • Count István Széchenyi and the "Reform Era": Rise and Fall of the "Greatest Hungarian"
  • Lajos Kossuth and Sándor Petöfi: Symbols of 1848
  • Victories, Defeat and Collapse: The Lost War of Independence, 1849
  • Kossuth the Hero versus "Judas" Görgey: "Good" and "Bad" in Sacrificial Mythology
  • Who was Captain Gusev? Russian "Freedom Fighters" between Minsk and Budapest
  • Elisabeth, Andrássy and Bismarck: Austria and Hungary on the Road to Reconciliation
  • Victory in Defeat: The Compromise and the Consequences of Dualism
  • Total Blindness: The Hungarian Sense of Mission and the Nationalities
  • The "Golden Age" of the Millennium: Modernization with Drawbacks
  • "Magyar Jew or Jewish Magyar?" A Unique Symbiosis
  • "Will Hungary become German or Magyar?" The Germans' Peculiar Role
  • From the Great War to the "Dictatorship of Despair": the Red Count and Lenin's Agent
  • The Admiral on a White Horse: Trianon and the Death Knell of St Stephen's Realm
  • Adventurers, Counterfeiters, Claimants to the Throne: Hungary as Troublemaker in the Danube Basin
  • Marching in Step with Hitler: Triumph and Fall. From the Persecution of Jews to Mob Rule
  • Victory in Defeat: 1945-1990
  • The Failure of the Democratic Experiment
  • Viktor Orbán's "Führerdemocracy."

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