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.
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Acknowledgments
Terminology
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I: A MILLENNIUM-OLD PAST
Chapter 1. The Challenge of Integration: Hungary in the 19th Century
Chapter 2. Anchoring a Millennium-Old Past in the Hungarian Minds
PART II: CITIES
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 I: Tables
Appendix II: Name locator
Bibliography
Index
Sobre el autor
Bálint Varga has been a research fellow at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2013. In 2015, he was awarded the R. John Rath Prize from the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota.
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