Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1974 (2. évfolyam, 3-5. szám)

1974 / 3. szám

siHUNGARIAN ^STUDIES M-lI NEWSLETTER No. 3 Winter 1974 published three times a year by the HUNGARIAN RESEARCH CENTER Subscription: $3.00 per annum. Single copy: $1.00 Communications concerning content should be sent to Dr. Bela C. Maday, Editor 4528-49th Street, N.l/V. Washington, D.C. 20016 Subscriptions and communications concerning circulation should be mailed to the Hungarian Research Center American Hungarian Studies Foundation P.O. Box 1084, New Brunswick, N.J. 08903 LONG AWAITED REPRINTS Under the general editorship of Dr. Harry Schwartz, Univer­sity Professor at State University College, New Platz, N.Y., and with the editorial advice of Dr. Robert F. Byrnes, Distinguished Professor of History, Indiana University, and Robert Lee Wolff, Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University. The Arno Press (aNew York Times Company) has performed an invaluable service to scholars and students of Eastern Europe, through the republication of important and almost inaccessible works on the history, social, economic, andpolitical conditions of Eastern European countries. Inthe introduction to its announcement Arno Press says: “In the twentieth century, at least, no area of the world has been able to compete with Eastern Europe as the source of recurrent catastrophe and near-catastrophe. Yet the worjd importance of Eastern Europe has not, until recently, been matched by any corresponding effort in this country to study the cultures and histories of 'the countries, to train highly skilled specialists to master the languages, or to make available to the great mass of students and citizens some basic knowledge of this vitally important area.” “It is with deficiencies of many American libraries, and the 'complexities of the area in mind that The Eastern European Collection has been prepared. Efforts have concentrated on assembling a basic group of authorative books which give an immediate and substantial capability for supporting courses and research on Eastern Europe... The collection represents a diverse sampling of the best classic materials available in English, ranging from memoirs and biographies of leading East European figures through accounts of travelers who visited the area in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries to standard historical studies ...” There are six attractively bound volumes dealing with Hungarian topics: Bethlen, Count Stephen. THE TREATY OF TRIANON AND THE EUROPEAN PEACE: Four Lectures Delivered in London in November 1933. Preface by Lord Newton. Originally published in London by Longmans, Green in 1934. $8.00 Count Bethlen, who held the premiership of Hungary fortén years after World War I, pleads in this book for the rectifica­tion of injustices committed on Hungary in the Paris peace treaties. Bethlen argues for the return to Hungary of areas inhabited by Hungarians but given to the successor coun­tries. He discusses critically the entire rezoning of Eastern Europe at the end of World War I and the new pattern of countries and co-existing nationalities that were formed. Knatchbull-Hugessen, C.M. THE POLITICAL EVOLUTION OF THE HUNGARIAN NATION. Originally published in London by the National Review Office in 1908. 2 volumes in one. Vol. I, 354 pages; Vol. II, 364 pages. $30.00 In this political history of Hungary from the year 1000 to the early twentieth century the author concentrates on the nature of the bond between Austria and Hungary in the empire. Volume I covers the history to 1848. Volume II carries the history to the beginning of the twentieth century. Kosáry, Dominic G. A HISTORY OF HUNGARY. Originally published in Cleveland by the Benjamin Franklin Bibliophile Society in 1941. 482 pages. $21.00 Kosary, a professor of history in Budapest, presents a nationalist’s point of view on Hungary’s relations with its neighbors. He begins with the age of conquest and settle­ment of the Hungarians in the Carpathian Basin, and concludes with the consequences the termination of the' Austro-Hungarian Empire had for a shrunken and defeated Hungary. About half of the volume is devoted to the history after 1849. Lingelbach, William E. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. Originally published at Philadelphia by John D. Morrisand Company in 1906. 494 pages. $22.00 Based primarily on Paul Louis Leger’s classic history which concentrates on the histories of Austria proper, Hungary, and Bohemia, the book focuses on the relations, in Cenral Europe, between Germans, Slavs, and Magyars over the centuries. Lingelbach’s translation is based on the fourth edition (1895) of Leger’s book which the author brings up to date through 1906. Marczali, Henry. HUNGARY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CEN­TURY: With an introductory essay on the earlier history of Hungary by Harold W.V. Temperley. Originally published at Cambridge by the University Press in 1910. 377 pages, maps, tables. $18.00. The author begins his now classic study as a history of Hungary during the time of Joseph II and Leopold II (1780- 1792). He follows with a detailed study of the economic, political, and social conditions of Hungary after the expul­sion of the Turks in an era during which the concept of Hungarian nationality triumphed in many key areas and among many key groups. The resettlement of devastated areas in the heart of Hungary and along its perimeters is also well treated. The struggle between Catholic and Protestant forces during this period received extensive attention. Paget, John. HUNGARY AND TRANSYLVANIA: With Remarks of their Condition - Social, Political, and Economical. Originally published at London by John Murray, Alberharle Street in 1850. Two volumes in one. Vol. I. 560 pages, Vol. II, 553 pages. $45.00. 2 NO. 3, 1974. HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER

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