Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 A Portrait of 18th Century Hungary The Country The People The Institutions Chapter 2 The Joy and the Agony of Standing Still The Sense of Permanence Habsburg Modernization in Hungary "Extra Hungariam non est Vita" The Baroque in Hungary Service and Resistance Chapter 3 The Enlightenment and Cultural Sensibilities: A Comparative Historical Perspective The Enlightenment Cultural Sensibilities Germany Austria Hungary Chapter 4 The Slow Erosion of Traditionalism The War-time Diets The Biedermeyer The Multiplicity of Moods Cultural Nationalism Ferenc Kazinczy Chapter 5 The Ambiguous Journey Toward Reforms The Hungarian Theater, Music, and the Arts Cultural Breakthroughs: Romanticism The 1825 - 27 Diet Chapter 6 The Hungarian Age of Reform in the 1830s The Early-mid 1830s: The Triumphant Years of Count Istvan Szechenyi The Diets of the Early-mid 1830s: Wesselenyi and Szechenyi Government Aggression Against the Liberals The 1839 - 40 Diet
Gabor Vermes is Professor Emeritus of History, Rutgers University
"Hungarian Culture and Politics in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1711–1848
is a fascinating exercise in turning back the clock and bringing an
old school approach to the telling of Hungarian history. Gábor
Vermes has chosen to focus on constructing ameta-narrative that
focuses on the power elite and how that power elite guided the
system. This is an excellent book for those interested in reading
about the East Central European nobility and its contribution to
the advancement of the enlightenment, nation building, and the
flowering of liberal democracy in 1848. The book will appeal to
those who are curious about the history of the elite, and
howspecifically the former feudal elitemade a critical contribution
to modernization in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century East Central
Europe. It will engage those students of nationalism who are
intrigued by the nation-state building role the nobility can play
and, more specifically, the cultural background that can account
for the making of this important class."
*Journal of Modern History*
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