| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 255 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 231-236. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations -- Colors, Words, Sounds -- The painter Munkacsy's funeral -- His rise and fall -- The seasons of Budapest -- The atmosphere of the city in 1900 -- Three writers of Budapest in 1900 -- Krudy's descriptions of the city -- Differences between Budapest and Vienna -- 1900 a turning point in the history of Budapest -- The City -- Its physical situation -- Its districts -- Its buildings and architecture -- The crowding of the city -- Rail, river and road; other communications; public services -- Material progress and population increase -- The reputation of Budapest abroad -- The People -- The historical developments of Buda and Pest -- Their unification -- The "Millennium" -- State and conditions of the population in 1900 -- Bourgeois influences -- Culinary habits and changes -- Criminality and prostitution -- Athletics and sports -- The structure of classes; the old nobility; the gentry -- the financial aristocracy and the patrician class -- Changes in the composition of the wealthy classes -- The Jewish population -- The working classes -- The rigidities of class consciousness -- Social mobility -- The Magyarization of Budapest -- Elements of bourgeois civilization -- Relations of the sexes -- Financial lightheadedness and probity -- Politics and Powers -- The Parliament -- Rhetorical habits and customs -- Nationalist optimism -- The worsening of parliamentary behavior -- Historical and constitutional development of the Hungarian state -- The Compromise of 1867 -- The political crisis of 1890. |
| Subject |
Budapest (Hungary) -- Civilization.
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| ISBN |
1555840604 |
|
9781555840600 |
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