Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1983 (11. évfolyam, 35-38. szám)
1983 / 37. szám
HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER No. 37 ISSN: 0194-164X AUTUMN, 1983 Published quarterly by the Hungarian Research Center of the American Hungarian Foundation: Winter, Spring (two numbers included), and Autumn. Founderand editor: Bela Charles Maday. Journal editor: Susan M. Nagy. Communications concerning content should be addressed to the Editor, 4528-49th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20016. Communications concerning subscriptions, advertising, and circulation should be addressed to American Hungarian Foundation, 177 Somerset Street, P.O. Box 1084, New Brunswick, N.J. 08903. Annual subscription in the U.S.A. $5.00. Abroad $7.00. Current single copy $3.00; back issues $3.50 each. BOOKS (Continued) oriented descriptive studies concerned with negation, suffixation, aspect, focus, existential sentences, and studies of interdisciplinary scope. Most of the papers are translations from the original Hungarian text. Some of them are highly specialized, others may appeal to the general reader. One essay by Katalin E. Kiss asserts that the idea of communicative or actual sentence articulation first appeared in the sentence theory of a 19th century Hungarian linguist, Samuel Brassai (1789-1889). According to the author, “the syntactic theory of Brassai, unknown abroad and long forgotten in Hungary, deserves to be reviewed because of its historical interest” and of the current relevance of its impact. The editor is member of the Institute of Linguistics, HAS. Király, Bela K., Peter Pastor, and Ivan Sanders eds ESSAYS ON WORLD WAR I: TOTAL WAR AND PEACEMAKING, A CASE STUDY ON TRIANON. Brooklyn College Studies on Society in Change No. 15, distributed by Columbia U. Press, 562 West 113 Street, New York, NY 10025, 1982. xiv + 678 pages, maps, charts. $27.50 cloth. (East European Monographs No. 105; War and Society in East Central Europe Vol. 6. Joint publication with Committee for Danubian Research.) Dedicated to the memory of Imre Kovács. Only one book-length study appeared in the English language about the effects of the Treaty of Trianon since 1920, Francis Deak’s Hungary at the Paris Peace Conference. New York: Columbia University Press, 1942 (reprinted 1972). The collection of 32 essays in the volume before us complements and updates Deak’s volume with new evidence and interpretations. It is a direct result of a symposium on the subject held at CUNY in November 1980. The complex topic required a multi-disciplinary approach, hence, the contributors came from various scholarly disciplines and from a score of countries, both East and West. The general framework of the series (war and society) demanded focusing on a comparative survey of military behavior and organization in various nations and ethnic groups to see what is peculiar to them, i.e., what were the cultural determinants. This is observed in the overall evolution of the societies involved. Part 1, gives an overview; Part 2, deals with Hungary and the Great Powers in the process of peacemaking. Part 3, discusses Hungary and its neighbors in the peacemaking process; Part 4, describes the settlement and its repercussions; and Part 5, presents a retrospect 60 years after Trianon. The essays are complemented by a useful biographical index and a gazetteer. The voiume is a must for scholars interested in East Central European history and social dynamics. Király is prof, emeritus of Brooklyn Coll., CUNY; Pastor is prof, of history at Montclair Coll., and Sanders is prof, of English, Suffolk County Coll. Komlos, John ed. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE HABSBURG MONARCHY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Columbia University Press, 562 West 113 Street, New York, NY 10025, 1983. xii + 204 pages, tables, graphs, figures. $20.00cloth. (No. 123 in East European Monographsser'ies.) The nine economic-historical essays in this volume are representative of recent research in this field. The Habsburg economy has fascinated economic historians who find it a rewarding field in which to explore their theories. Of course, this can most often not be done without political overtones. The volume indicates also that the work of economic historians has implications fortraditional historians as well, and that the Habsburg Empire provides a rich source of data to such exercises. The editor admits that “some of the selections are replete with economic jargon” but all in all, the volume makes sense to the non-specialist also. The volume begins with an essay by Nachum Gross, in which he shows that “Austria was economically less developed than her western and northwestern neighbors” in the 19th century; György Ránki introduces the reader to salient features of Hungarian economic development; David Good reports on the interpretation of the financial markets in Austria; Arnost Klima reports on hisstudy of industrial evolution in Bohemia; Scott Eddie, a leading figure of the field, challenges the view that the uneven distribution of land in Hungary consisted as an obstacle to economic development; Edward März studied the history of the “Creditanstalt, the first of the ‘universal’ banks in East-Central Europe;" John Komlos analyzes the monetary and banking reforms of the 1880s and the 1980s; Richard Rudolph warns “that the 1848 reforms ought not to be conceptualized as a watershed in the monarchy’s economic development;” and László Katus takes a thorough look at the transport revolution in Hungary and its economic consequences. The editor is asst. prof, of business administration at Roosevelt U. Kovács, Martin L. ed„ ROOTS AND REALITIES AMONG EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPEANS. Central and East European Studies Assoc, of Canada, 8540 - 109 Street, Edmonton, AL T6G 1E6, 1983. viii + 334 pages, tables, diagrams, biblio. Canadian $12.00 paper. Scholarly ethnic studies are still in want. Throughout the history of North American immigration, journalistic and emotionally charged accounts reported haphazardly on individual successes and failures, but only recently can one find scholarly studies dealing systematically with the social dynamics of this enormous human relocation. Most of the essays in this volume, are based on papers presented at a conference (U. of Alberta, 1980) concerned with the adjustment process of immigrants. Of the 24 essays, four pertain to Hungarians. M. L. Kovács (U. of Regina) in Settlement, Depression and Alienation: An Episode from Early Prairie History, attempts to reconstruct the historical and economic setting to which immigrants became exposed by using the vehicle of a biography of Julius Vass, an associate of Count Paul O. Esterhazy (for references see HSN no. 10, p. 4), and who committed suicide when problems became overwhelming. Vass appears to have been basically “a decent, but sadly alienated person who tried to find short-cuts towards the 2 NO. 37, AUTUMN 1963, HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEW5 LETTER
