Hungary's long nineteenth century : constitutional and democratic traditions in a European perspective : collected studies / by Laszlo Peter ; edited by Miklos Lojko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peter, L. (Laszlo), 1929-2008.

Contributor:

Lojkó, Miklós.

Series:

Central and Eastern Europe ; v. 1.

Central and Eastern Europe : regional perspectives in global context, 1877-8550 ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austria--Foreign relations--Hungary.

Austria.

Hungary--Foreign relations--Austria.

Hungary.

Hungary--History--19th century.

Hungary--Politics and government--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (499 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 entity into a modern European state. The articles examine thorny subjects, such as the growing tensions between the nationalities living within the multi-ethnic kingdom; language rights; autocracy, democracy and civil rights in Hungary perceived in a wider European context; the concept of the ‘Holy Crown’; the army question; church-state relations; the role of the intellectuals; and the changing British perception of Hungary. The central focus of the author’s microscope is reserved for a substantive re-evaluation of the Settlement between Hungary and the Austrian Empire in 1867, which had a decisive impact on the eventual fate of the old kingdom of Hungary and of the rest of Central Europe.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-49585-5

9786613591081

90-04-22421-1

OCLC:

794328534

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004224216 DOI