The Monumental Nation: Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siècle Hungary
Bálint Varga
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.
سال:
2016
ناشر کتب:
Berghahn Books
زبان:
english
صفحات:
300
ISBN 10:
1785333135
ISBN 13:
9781785333132
سیریز:
Austrian and Habsburg Studies
فائل:
EPUB, 1.54 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2016