Hungarian Culture and Politics in the Habsburg Monarchy 1711-1848.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- 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 István Széchenyi -- The Diets of the Early-mid 1830s: Wesselényi and Széchenyi -- Government Aggression Against the Liberals -- The 1839-40 Diet -- CHAPTER 7: The Hungarian Age of Reform in the 1840s -- Lajos Kossuth and Count Aurél Dessewffy: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Issue of Nationality -- The Széchenyi-Kossuth Debate -- The 1843-44 Diet -- Social and Economic Developments: Kossuth's Védegylet -- Political and Cultural Pluralism -- 1847-48 -- Epilogue -- Works Cited -- Index -- Back cover.

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