dr. Horváth Sándor: A forradalom polgári arca Vas megyében (Szombathely, 1999)

Válogatott bibliográfia

Válogatott bibliográfia Selected bibliography 137 VAS COUNTY FROM THE AGE OF REFORM TO THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY. Professional historians and amateur researchers have dealt with the 19th-century history of Vas County in many published studies. The quantity of printed documents produced and surviving varies from period to period. Regular periodicals are found only from 1867 onwards, when the Vasmegyei Lapok (Vas County Papers) first appeared. Local collections include only a few printed items from the pre1848 Age of Reform. Most of these are literary or religious works. Two publications from the 1848-9 period deserve a special mention: Antal Keőszegy's book A politikai pártokról (On Political Parties), and the training, exercising and patrolling regulations of the National Guard. Both were produced at Imre Bertalanffy's press. There are hardly any works of value from the 1849-67 period apart from official publications (church, county and city). This changed when the Austro-Hungarian Ausgleich (Compromise) of 1867 ushered in a period of expansion that increased the volume of material published and the range of subject-matter it covered. Town histories and scholarly works appeared, and societies in the district produced annual reports. However, it was not until this century that much writing appeared on the events of 1848-9 or the people concerned in them. Some notable works about Lajos Batthyány appeared in Pest in the 1870s, mainly linked with the 1848 prime minister's reburial, but real assessment of the events did not come until the 20th century. Some notable studies of the events in Vas County appeared in journals published in Szombathely: Vasi Szemle (Vas Review), Vasi Honismereti Közlemények (Vas Local Knowledge Communications) and Életünk (Our Life). Local researchers also contributed papers to journals elsewhere, including Századok (Centuries), Budapesti Szemle (Budapest Review) and Honismeret (Local Knowledge). An especially large number of pieces dealt with Batthyány and with Justice Minister Boldizsár Horváth. Some important studies also appeared in publications by local institutions (Vas County Archives, the Savaria Museum, the Dániel Berzsenyi Teachers' Training College). The embourgeoisement in the second half of the 19th century can also be traced in the writings of later researchers. Much assistance in examining this can be gained from the statistical sources and contemporary published materials, ranging from exhibition catalogues to pamphlets designed to popularize the county and its towns. The daily papers, often underestimated by researchers, provide important information on daily life and the range of subjects that concerned people at the time: fashions, politics, the arts, crime. With a few exceptions, publications of daily newspapers do not appear in the bibliography, because they would swell it to an immoderate size. Nonetheless, they are important to researchers as an adjunct to archive sources. THE REVOLUTION AND WAR OF INDEPENDENCE IN VAS COUNTY BALOGH, Gyula, Vasvármegye honvédsége 1848-49 (Vas County's National Defence Force, 1848-9) Szombathely: Seiler Henrikné ny., 1895, 71 pp. BERNSTEIN, Béla, Az 1848/49-iki magyar szabadságharc és a zsidók (The 1848-9 Hungarian War of Independence and the Jews) Budapest: Franklin ny., 1898, 344 pp. References to Vas. BONA, Gábor, A '48-as honvédsereg Vas megyei származású huszártisztjei' (Hussar Officers Originating from Vas County in the 1848 National Defence Force) Életünk (Our Life), No. 10-11, 1994, pp. 954-66.