The Monumental Nation: Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siecle Hungary (Austrian and Habsburg Studies #20)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2017
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781785333149
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781785333132, 9781785333132, 9781789205190
- Publisher:
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 11/20/19
- Copyrighted By:
- Bálint Varga
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.