Hungary's Historical Legacy - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880334525 ISBN 13: 9780880334525

Publisher: East European Monographs, 2000

Synopsis

This book contains 19 studies by leading experts in the field of Hungarian political, cultural, economic, and literary history to honor Steven Béla Várdy, America's leading historiographer of Hungary and an internationally renowned scholar of Hungarian immigration studies. Topics include an overview of democracy's traditions in Hungarian history by Joseph Held, analyses of medieval legal history, the 18th and 19th century reform movements, 19th-century national issues, historiographical examinations of Trianon and the ZIPs region of Upper Hungary, the legacy of Oscar Jaszi, Transylvania in Soviet plans during World War II, peasant education before the war, U.S.-Hungarian cold war relations, the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and its assorted aspects in America, to linguistic and literary problems.

About this title

Book Description:

This book contains 19 studies by leading experts in the field of Hungarian political, cultural, economic, and literary history to honor Steven Béla Várdy, America's leading historiographer of Hungary and an internationally renowned scholar of Hungarian immigration studies.

About the Author:

Dennis P. Hupchick is associate professor of history at Wilkes University.

R. William Weisberger is professor of history and sociology at Butler County Community College.

About this edition

• Publisher: East European Monographs
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0880334525
• ISBN 13: 9780880334525
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Hupchick Dennis, Weisberger R. William