The monumental nation : Magyar nationalism and symbolic politics in fin-de-siecle Hungary /

The monumental nation : Magyar nationalism and symbolic politics in fin-de-siecle Hungary /

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Author / Creator:	Varga, Bálint, 1983- author.
Imprint:	New York : Berghahn Books, 2016. ©2016
Description:	viii, 286 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Austrian and Habsburg studies ; Volume 20 Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 20.
Subject:	Nationalism -- Hungary -- History -- 19th century. Memorialization -- Political aspects -- Hungary. Memorials -- Political aspects -- Hungary. Group identity -- Hungary. National characteristics, Hungarian. Hungarians -- Ethnic identity. Group identity. Hungarians -- Ethnic identity. National characteristics, Hungarian. Nationalism. Politics and government. Hungary -- Politics and government -- 1867-1918. Hungary. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11015700

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ISBN:	9781785333132 1785333135 9781785333149 1785333143
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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 Balint Varga thus reframes the narrative of nineteenth-century nationalism, demonstrating the complex relationship between local and national memories.
Standard no.:	40026858937

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgments
Terminology
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. A Millennium-Old Past
1. The Challenge of Integration: Hungary in the Nineteenth Century
2. Anchoring a Millennium-Old Past in the Hungarian Minds
Part II. Cities
3. Pressburg and Theben
4. Nitra
5. Munkács
6. Brassó
7. The Magyar Inland: Pannonhalma and Pusztaszer
8. Semlin
9. Local Conditions of National Integration
Part III. Events
10. Prologue: The Many Faces of the Millennium
11. Signs for Eternity: The Millennial Monuments
12. The Millennial Monuments in the Public Space, 1896-1918
Appendix 1. Tables
Appendix 2. Name locator
Bibliography
Index