A Nation Divided by History and Memory: Hungary in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9780367499310 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 198 str.

Opis

In A Nation Divided by History and Memory a prominent Hungarian historian sheds light on how Hungary’s historical image has become split as a consequence of the differences between the historian’s conceptualisation of national history and its diverse representations in personal and collective memory.

Spis treści

Preface;  Acknowledgements;  Introduction: Two Kinds of History;  Part I: The Past as Experience and Memory;  1. The Experience and Remembrance of World War I;  2. Image and Reality of a Divided Country;  3. Collective Memory as a Political Instrument;  4. Jewish Experience and the Hungarian Memory of the Holocaust;  5. Memory and Discourse about the 1956 Revolution;  Part II History as Constructed by Historians;  6. National Culture, Cultural Nationalism, and History;  7. Cultic and Ironic Visions of Hungary’s History;  8. Revolution, Uprising, Civil War;  9. Conclusion;  Bibliography;  Index

O autorze

Gábor Gyáni is Research Professor at the Institute of History Research Center for Humanities, and Professor at Roland Eötvös University Budapest. His numerous English language books include Parlor and Kitchen: Housing and Domestic Culture in Budapest, 1870–1940 (2002), Identity and the Urban Experience: Fin-de-Siécle Budapest (2004), Social History of Hungary from the Reform Era to the End of the Twentieth Century (co-authored with György Kövér, Tibor Valuch) (2004).