Another Hungary : the nineteenth-century provinces in eight lives / Robert Nemes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nemes, Robert, author.

Series:

Stanford studies on Central and Eastern Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Hungary--Biography.

Hungary.

Hungary--History--19th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Another Hungary tells the stories of eight remarkable individuals: an aristocrat, merchant, engineer, teacher, journalist, rabbi, tobacconist, and writer. All eight came from the same woebegone corner of prewar Hungary. Their biographies illuminate how the region's residents made sense of economic underdevelopment, ethnic diversity, and relations between Christians and Jews. Taken together, their stories create a unique picture of the troubled history of Eastern Europe, viewed not from the capital cities, but from small towns and villages. Through these eight lives, Another Hungary investigates the wider processes that remade Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century. It asks: How did people make sense of the dramatic changes, from the advent of the railroad to the outbreak of the First World War? How did they respond to the army of political ideologies that marched through this region: liberalism, socialism, nationalism, antisemitism, and Zionism? To what extent did people in the provinces not just react to, but influence what was happening in the centers of political power? This collective biography confirms that nineteenth-century Hungary was no earthly paradise. But it also shows that the provinces produced men and women with bold ideas on how to change their world. Book jacket.

Contents:

The aristocrat

The merchant

The engineer

The teacher

The journalist

The rabbi

The tobacconist

The writer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Nemes, Robert, author. Another Hungary

ISBN:

9780804795913

0804795916

OCLC:

932385921