Description
| Product ID: | 9781789205190 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Austrian and Habsburg Studies |
| Title: | The Monumental Nation |
| Subtitle: | Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siecle Hungary |
| Authors: | Author: Balint Varga |
| Page Count: | 300 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, History, Nationalism, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Nationalism, Hungary, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In a quixotic episode in 19th-century Hungary's attempts to spread nationalist sentiments, monuments were erected near small towns commemorating the medieval conquest of the Carpathian Basin-the supposed origin of the Hungarian nation. This study recounts the troubled history of this plan... 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Publisher Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-11-07 |
