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The Hungarians : A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat /
The Hungarians is the most comprehensive, clear-sighted, and absorbing history ever of a legendarily proud and passionate but lonely people. Much of Europe once knew them as "child-devouring cannibals" and "bloodthirsty Huns." But it wasn't long before the Hungarians became...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2004]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Maps
- Foreword to the English Edition
- 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 Arpads
- 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 Mohacs
- 9. The Disaster of Ottoman Rule
- 10. Transylvania--the Stronghold of Hungarian Sovereignty
- 11. Gabor Bethlen--Vassal, Patriot and European
- 12. Zrinyi or Zrinski? One Hero for Two Nations
- 13. The Rebel Leader Thokoly: Adventurer or Traitor?
- 14. Ferenc Rakoczi 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 Istvan Szechenyi and the "Reform Era": Rise and Fall of the "Greatest Hungarian"
- 20. Lajos Kossuth and Sandor Petofi: Symbols of 1848
- 21. Victories, Defeat and Collapse: The Lost War of Independence, 1849
- 22. Kossuth the Hero versus "Judas" Gorgey: "Good" and "Bad" in Sacrificial Mythology
- 23. Who was Captain Gusev? Russian "Freedom Fighters" between Minsk and Budapest
- 24. Elisabeth, Andrassy 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. ''Everyone is a Hungarian": Geniuses and Artists
- Summing-up
- Notes
- Significant Dates in Hungarian History
- Index.