Download or read book 33 Hungarian Histories written by Miklos Molnar and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand the Hungarian Mentality through 33 Captivating Stories of Inherently Magyar Personalities Whether you're in search of your Hungarian roots, are living in or travelling to Hungary or you're just curious about the history of this tiny but ever-proud nation - this book is for you. You don't have to pick your way through long and boring history books. Each of these stories is packed with interesting facts you probably didn't know before, peculiarities that'll make you chuckle and an irresistible sense of humour that'll stick with you long after you've read the last page. Are Hungarians really descendants of Attila and the Huns after all? Who was Vörösmarty, who received an entire square with an oversized statue on top in the very centre of the city? Why is Ferenc Puskás still loved as "everybody's little brother" today Who was the "architect" of Trianon, the "national trauma" that lasts until today? How exactly was this tiny nation involved in the discovery of something as vital as Vitamin C, as ubiquitous as the biro and something so horrendously destructive as the atomic bomb? What makes the Hungarian people tick? Where is their strong pride rooted? How can this pride go hand in hand with a deep sense of loneliness, isolation and inferiority? This book has the answers to all of these questions (any many more). It spans across centuries of Hungarian history from the dark Medieval Ages to the Atomic Era. And it provides invaluable and highly entertaining insights into the complexes, virtues and flaws of the modern Magyar existence. This book is for everyone who is interested in Hungarian History and wants to understand the Hungarian mentality and identity - with all its flaws and virtues. WHOSE STORIES ARE TOLD In Search of Roots Attila the Hun, Our Hun Chief Árpád, The Founding Father Sándor Kőrösi-Csoma, Seeking Hungarian roots, founding Tibetology Ármin Vámbéry, The Dervish in Disguise Nation Builders Mátyás, The King in Disguise István Széchenyi, The Greatest of the Magyars Albert Apponyi, The Architect of Trianon Mihály Károlyi, The Red Count Anna Kéthly, A Friend of Social Justice, a Thorn in the Side of Politicians László Rajk, The Man who was Buried Three Times Voices Mihály Vörösmarty, The Voice of Despair and Hope Franz Liszt, A Lover of Music and Women Tivadar Csontváry, The Painter of Loneliness Molnár Ferenc, The Bohemian Hungarian Who Conquered Broadway Robert Capa, A Pacifist and Eye-witness to Five Wars István Örkény, Chronicler of Absurdity Zoltán Kodály, The Music Educator of a Nation Myth-makers Sisi, Queen of the Hungarians Tivadar Herzl, Architect of the Jewish Nation Blaha Lujza, The Nation's Nightingale Béla Lugosi, The Resurrection of Count Dracula Karádi Katalin, Legendary Sex Symbol Ferenc Puskás, Everybody's Little Brother Vagabonds Móric Benyovszky, The Hungarian Made King of Madagascar Rózsa Sándor, The King of the Betyárs Ágoston Haraszty, The Father of California Wine Ignaz Trebitsch, The Talented Mr. Trebitsch László Almássy, The Hungarian Patient Unbridled Geniuses Arthur Koestler, A Man of Causes László Bíró, The Man Who Gave His Name to a Pen Albert Szent-györgyi, The Man Behind Vitamin C Leo Szilárd, Doctor A-bomb Pál Erdős, The Vagabond of Mathematics
Download or read book The Essential Guide to Being Hungarian written by ISTVAN BORI and published by New Europe Books. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it to be Hungarian? What does it feel like? Most Hungarians are convinced that the rest of the world just doesn't get them. They are right. True, much of the world thinks highly of Hungarians--for reasons ranging from their heroism in the 1956 revolution to their genius as mathematicians, physicists, and financiers. But Hungarians do often seem to be living proof of the old joke that Magyars are in fact Martians: they may be situated in the very heart of Europe, but they are equipped with a confounding language, extraterrestrial (albeit endearing) accents, and an unearthly way of thinking. What most Hungarians learn from life about the Magyar mind is now available, for the first time, in this user-friendly guide to what being Hungarian is all about. The Essential Guide to Being Hungarian brings together twelve authors well-versed in the quintessential ingredients of being Hungarian--from the stereotypical Magyar man to the stereotypical Magyar woman, foods to folk customs, livestock to literature, film to philosophy, politics to porcelain, and scientists to sports. In fifty short, highly readable, often witty, sometimes politically incorrect, but always candid articles, the authors demonstrate that being credibly Hungarian--like being French, Polish or Japanese--is largely a matter of carrying around in your head a potpourri of conceptions and preconceptions acquired over the years from your elders, society, school, the streets, and mass media. Compacting this wealth of knowledge into an irresistible little book, The Essential Guide to Being Hungarian is an indispensable reference that will teach you how to be Hungarian, even if you already are.
Download or read book A Concise History of Hungary written by Miklós Molnár and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-30 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the land, people, society, culture and economy of Hungary.
Download or read book Journey to a Revolution written by Michael Korda and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-09-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was not just an extraordinary and dramatic event—perhaps the most dramatic single event of the Cold War—but, as we can now see fifty years later, a major turning point in history. Here is an eyewitness account, in the tradition of George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. The spontaneous rising of Hungarian people against the Hungarian communist party and the Soviet forces in Hungary in the wake of Stalin's death, while ending unsuccessfully, demonstrated to the world at large the failure of Communism. The Russians were obliged to use force on a vast scale against armed students, factory workers, and intellectuals in the streets of a major European capital to restore the Hungarian communist party to power. For two weeks, students, women, and teenagers fought tanks in the streets of Budapest, in full view of the Western media—and therefore the world—and for a time they actually won, deeply humiliating the men who succeeded Stalin. The Russians eventually managed to extinguish the revolution with brute force and overwhelming numbers, but never again would they attempt to use military force on a large scale to suppress dissent in their Eastern European empire. Told with brilliant detail, suspense, occasional humor, and sustained anger, Journey to a Revolution is at once history and a compelling memoir—the amazing story of four young Oxford undergraduates, including the author, who took off for Budapest in a beat-up old Volkswagen convertible in October 1956 to bring badly needed medicine to Budapest hospitals and to participate, at street level, in one of the great battles of postwar history. Michael Korda paints a vivid and richly detailed picture of the events and the people; explores such major issues as the extent to which the British and American intelligence services were involved in the uprising, making the Hungarians feel they could expect military support from the West; and describes, day by day, the course of the revolution, from its heroic beginnings to the sad martyrdom of its end. Journey to a Revolution delivers "a harrowing and horrifying tale told in spare and poignant prose—sometimes bitter, sometimes ironic, always powerful."* * Kirkus Reviews (starred)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Torrington Library Association written by Torrington library association and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the 33rd Division A E F by Frederick Louis Huidekoper written by Frederic Louis Huidekoper and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the 33rd Division A E F written by Frederic Louis Huidekoper and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Motherland and Progress written by József Sisa and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 1307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 19th century Hungary witnessed unprecedented social, economic and cultural development. The country became an equal partner within the Dual Monarchy when the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 was concluded. Architecture and all forms of design flourished as never before. A distinctly Central European taste emerged, in which the artistic presence of the German-speaking lands was augmented by the influence of France and England. As this process unfolded, attempts were made to find a uniquely Hungarian form, based on motifs borrowed from peasant art as well as real (or fictitious) historical antecedents. "Motherland and Progress" – the motto of 19th-century Hungarian reformers – reflected the programme embraced by the country in its drive to define its identity and shape its future.
Download or read book Austria Hungary History of Austria History of Hungary Foreign policy of Austria Hungary Bohemia and Moravia Slovakia Austrian Silesia Bukovina Transylvania and the Banat Hungarian Ruthenia written by Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Austro Hungary from the Earliest Time to the Year 1889 written by Louis Leger and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Austria and the Austro Hungarian Empire 1781 2020 written by William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most comprehensive, well-documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 166 photographs and illustrations - many color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books
Download or read book The History of the Hungarian Pipemaker s Craft Hungarian History Through the Pipemaker s Art written by Edit Haider and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1989 written by James Mark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing Eastern Europe in a global context, this provides new perspectives on the political, economic, and cultural transformations of the late twentieth century.
Download or read book Church and Society in Hungary and in the Hungarian Diaspora written by Nándor Dreisziger and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Church and Society in Hungary and in the Hungarian Diaspora, Nándor Dreisziger tells the story of Christianity in Hungary and the Hungarian diaspora from its earliest years until the present. Beginning with the arrival of Christianity in the middle Danube basin, Dreisziger follows the fortunes of the Hungarians' churches through the troubled times of the Middle Ages, the years of Ottoman and Habsburg domination, and the turmoil of the twentieth century: wars, revolutions, foreign occupations, and totalitarian rule. Complementing this detailed history of religious life in Hungary, Dreisziger describes the fate of the churches of Hungarian minorities in countries that received territories from the old Kingdom of Hungary after the First World War. He also tells the story of the rise, halcyon days, and decline of organized religious life among Hungarian immigrants to Western Europe, the Americas, and elsewhere. The definitive guide to the dramatic history of Hungary's churches, Church and Society in Hungary and in the Hungarian Diaspora chronicles their proud past and speculates about their uncertain future.
Download or read book A History of the Hungarian Constitution written by Ferenc Hörcher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new Hungarian Basic Law, which was ratified on 1 January 2012, provoked domestic and international controversy. Of particular concern was the constitutional text's explicit claim that it was situated within a reinvigorated Hungarian legal tradition that had allegedly developed over centuries before its violent interruption during World War II, by German invaders, and later, by Soviet occupation. To explore the context and validity of this claim, and the legal traditions which have informed the stormy centuries of Hungary's constitutional development, this book brings together a group of leading historians, political scientists and legal scholars to produce a comprehensive history of Hungarian constitutional thought. Ranging in scope from an overview of Hungarian medieval jurisprudence to an assessment of the various criticisms levelled at the new Hungarian Basis Law of 2012, contributors assess the constitutions, their impacts and their legacies, as well as the social and cultural contexts within which they were drafted. The historical analysis is accompanied by a selection of original source materials, many translated here for the first time. This is the only book in English on the subject and is essential reading for all those interested in Hungary's history, political culture and constitution.
Download or read book History of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon in 1815 to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in 1852 written by Archibald Alison and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies on Early Hungarian and Pontic History written by C.A. Macartney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1999, Professor C.A. Macartney was one of the foremost 20th-century authorities on the history of the Danube basin. His life’s work included the re-examination of the sources relating to early Hungarian and Pontic history. This selection of his studies (some of them hardly accessible because they were published in wartime conditions) illuminates one of the dark corners of medieval Europe and tackles controversial questions in the history of the nomadic steppe peoples, such as the Magyars, Pechenegs, Kavars and Cumans. Macartney’s treatment of the earliest Hungarian written sources and their interpretation laid the foundation for his shorter book, The Medieval Hungarian Historians. The present volume brings together for the first time, and indexes, his series of detailed studies on this material; penetrating in both its analysis and scholarship, this work remains indispensable for our understanding of the period and its historiography.
