TY - BOOK AU - Varga,Bálint TI - The Monumental Nation: Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siècle Hungary T2 - Austrian and Habsburg Studies SN - 9781785333132 PY - 2016///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary KW - bisacsh KW - 19th century nationalism KW - habsburg hungary KW - historical study KW - history KW - hostility among provincial hungarians KW - hungary KW - impose unified national identity KW - local and national memories KW - massive project of cultural assimilation KW - medieval conquest of carpathian basin KW - moment hungarian nation was born KW - quixotic episodes in magyarization KW - resistance provoking KW - study of magyarization N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations and Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Terminology --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Part I A millennium-old past --; Chapter 1 The Challenge of Integration: Hungary in the Nineteenth Century --; Chapter 2 Anchoring a Millennium-Old Past in the Hungarian Minds --; Part II Cities --; Introduction --; Chapter 3 Pressburg and Theben --; Chapter 4 Nitra --; Chapter 5 Munkács --; Chapter 6 Brassó --; Chapter 7 The Magyar Inland: Pannonhalma and Pusztaszer --; Chapter 8 Semlin --; Chapter 9 Local Conditions of National Integration --; Part III Events --; Chapter 10 Prologue: The Many Faces of the Millennium --; Chapter 11 Signs for Eternity: The Millennial Monuments --; Chapter 12 The Millennial Monuments in the Public Space, 1896–1918 --; Appendix 1 Tables --; Appendix 2 Name Locator --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785333149?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785333149 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785333149/original ER -