| Description |
xvi, 604 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits, genealogical charts ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
From the Publisher: A history of Hungary from 1000 to the present day by the former British Ambassador to Hungary. |
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"The Will to Survive describes how a small country, for much of its existence squeezed between two empires, surrounded by hostile neighbours and subjected to invasion and occupation, survived the frequent tragedies of its eventful history to become a sovereign democratic republic within the European Union. The Mongol, Ottoman, Habsburg, Nazi and Soviet empires have all since vanished; but Hungary, a victim of all five and despite suffering the consequences of being on the losing side in every war she has fought, still occupies the territory the Magyar tribes claimed for themselves in the ninth century. The author, whose interest in Hungary stems from his service there as British Ambassador during the declining years of Kadar's Communist regime, traces Hungary's story from the arrival of the Magyars in Europe to the accession of Hungary to membership of NATO and the European Union. The eleven hundred years covered by this stirring account embrace medieval greatness, Turkish occupation, Habsburg domination, unsuccessful struggles for independence, massive deprivation of territory and population after the First World War, a disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany motivated by the hope of redress, and forty years of Soviet-imposed Communism interrupted by a gallant but brutally suppressed revolution in 1956."--Amazon.com. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-553) and index. |
| Contents |
List of illustrations -- Preface -- pt. 1. The medieval kingdom -- 1. The Magyars (400 BC-AD 1000) -- The migrations -- The 'conquest' -- The raids -- Hungary and Christendom -- 2. The young Hungarian state (1000-1301) -- Stephen I, King and saint (1000-38) -- Hungarian society in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- The seeds of ambition -- Béla IV and the Mongol invasion -- Twilight of the Árpáds -- 3. Hungary ascendant (1301-1444) -- The first Angevin : Charles I Robert -- Louis I, the Great, of Hungary and Poland (1342-82) -- Sigismund I, King and Emperor -- Hungary in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- 4. From light into darkness (1444-1526) -- János Hunyadi (c. 1407-56) -- Matthias I Corvinus (1458-90) -- Cultural life in fourteenth and fifteenth-century Hungary -- Towards Mohács. |
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pt. 2. The Habsburg kingdom -- 5. Hungary divided (1526-1711) -- Civil war (1526-41) -- The reformation in Hungary -- Occupied Hungary -- Transylvania -- Royal Hungary -- 6. The struggle for independence (1547-1711) -- The Fifteen Years' War -- István Bocskai and the Haiduks -- Counter-Reformation -- Gábor Bethlen, György Rákóczi I and the Thirty Years' War -- Resentment, conspiracy, repression -- Imre Thököly and the Kuruc: liberation and retribution -- Ferenc Rákóczi II and the War of Independence -- 7. Habsburg rule and national awakening (1711-1825) -- The eighteenth century Habsburgs, absolutism and reform: Charles III (1711-40) ; Maria Theresa (1740-80) ; Noble Recalcitrance, economic backwardness ; Joseph II (1780-90) ; Leopold II (1790-92) ; Francis I (1792-1835) -- Ideas and peoples: ideas ; peoples -- 8. Reform, language and nationality (1825-43) -- The case for reform -- The reformers: István Széchenyi ; Lajos Kossuth -- The reforms: the Diets, 1825-44 ; language and the nation. |
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9. Opposition, revolution and war (1844-49) -- The growth of opposition -- The revolution of 1848 -- The War of Independence -- 10. The politics of compromise and dualism (1849-1906) -- Retribution and neo-absolutism (1849-60) -- Kossuth and the exiles -- Towards a compromise -- The compromise (1867) -- Foreign affairs -- The politics of dualism (1875-1906) -- 11. Economic advance in a troubled society (1850-1913) -- Towards a modern economy -- Hungarian society under dualism: the nobility ; the Jewish bourgeoisie ; peasants and workers -- The nationalities and 'Magyarisation' -- Intellectual and cultural life -- A modern European capital -- 12. War and revolution (1906-1919) -- The last years of peace (1906-14) -- Hungary at war (1914-18) -- Revolutions and counter-revolution. |
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pt. 3. Triple tragedy and rebirth -- 13. The road to Trianon (1914-20) -- Towards a new Europe -- The peace treaty -- 14. Horthy's Hungary (1920-42) -- The regency -- Consolidation (1920-31) -- The drift to the right (1931-39) -- The inter-war economy -- Hungarian society between the wars: The 'political class' ; the Jews ; workers and peasants -- Education and culture -- 15. The Faustian Pact I: the prize (1936-41) -- The drift towards Germany (1936-38) -- The prize (1938-41) -- 16. The Faustian Pact II: the price (1941-45) -- The first instalment -- The second instalment -- The third instalment -- The final instalment -- 17. Two false dawns (1945-56) -- An illusion of democracy -- Dictatorship and terror -- A land of iron and steel -- Rákosi's Hungary -- The 'new course' -- Reaction -- 18. Revolution (1956). |
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19. The second compromise (1956-88) -- János Kádár -- Repression and consolidation -- Reform -- Kádár's Hungary -- 20. Round Table Revolution and Democratic Hungary (1988-2000) -- An opposition emerges -- Endgame for the HSWP -- The Round Table Revolution -- Democratic Hungary -- Appendix I: The Árpád kings of Hungary -- The Angevin & Jagiellonian kings of Hungary -- The Habsburg kings of Hungary -- Appendix II -- A note on Hungarian pronunciation -- Appendix III -- Hungarian place names. |
| Subject |
Hungary -- History.
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Hungary. (OCoLC)fst01205132
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Hungary. (DE-588)4078541-5
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Cartledge, Bryan, Sir. Will to survive. Tiverton : Timewell Press, 2006 (OCoLC)659111982 |
| ISBN |
9780199327348 (paperback ;) (acid-free paper) |
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0199327343 (paperback ;) (acid-free paper) |
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