The Hungarians : a thousand years of victory in defeat / Paul Lendvai ; translated by Ann Major.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lendvai, Paul, 1929- author.

Contributor:

Major, Ann, 1928- translator.

Standardized Title:

Ungarn. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Hungary--History.

Hungary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"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 brings the narrative up to the present, the book describes the evolution of Hungarian politics, culture, economics, and identity since the Magyars first arrived in the Carpathian Basin in 896. Through colorful anecdotes of heroes and traitors, victors and victims, revolutionaries and tyrants, Lendvai chronicles the way progressivism and economic modernization have competed with intolerance and narrow-minded nationalism. An unforgettable blend of skilled storytelling and scholarship, The Hungarians is an authoritative account of this enigmatic and important nation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"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 Szechenyi 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."

Notes:

"English translation first published in the United Kingdom by C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, London, and in North America, South America, and the Philippines by Princeton University Press, Copyright 2003."

"First edition originally published as 'Die Ungarn. Ein Jahrtausend Sieger in Niederlagen' by C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich, 1999."

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691200279

0691200270

OCLC:

1232410406