ملت Monumental: ملی‌گرایی مجار و سیاست‌های نمادین در مجارستان پایان قرن نوزدهم (مطالعات اتریشی و هابسبورگی، جلد ۲۰)

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. The Monumental Nation -- The Monumental Nation - Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siècle Hungary - Bálint Varga -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Terminology -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I - A millennium-old past -- Chapter 1 - The Challenge of Integration -- Chapter 2 - Anchoring a Millennium-Old Past in the Hungarian Minds -- Part II - Cities -- Chapter 3 - Pressburg and Theben -- Chapter 4 - Nitra -- Chapter 5 - Munkács -- Chapter 6 - Brassó -- Chapter 7 - The Magyar Inland -- Chapter 8 - Semlin -- Chapter 9 - Local Conditions of National Integration -- Part III - Events -- Chapter 10 - Prologue -- Chapter 11 - Signs for Eternity -- Chapter 12 - The Millennial Monuments in the Public Space, 1896-1918 -- Appendix 1 - Tables -- Appendix 2 - Name Locator -- Bibliography -- Index -- Austrian and Habsburg Studies "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." -- (quatrième de couverture) In a quixotic episode in nineteenth-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.