Somogy megye múltjából - Levéltári évkönyv 23. (Kaposvár, 1992)

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Péter Hanák, Széchenyi’s Ideas About Bourgeoisie. Széchenyi and the Spreading of Bourgeois Mentality in Hungary:

The author focuses on the various ways Széchenyi enriches the concept of „bourgeoisie’, particularly the bourgeois mentality featured in Credit and in a number of Széchenyi’s later works. He also explains the difference between bourgeois virtue and the „virtue” used to connote heroism in earlier centuries. According to Hanák, Széchenyi realised and explained that the conditions of Hungary did not fit the profit-oriented 19th Century. To his mind the main value of the time was patriotism. He was trying to find means and methods of harmonizing private and public interests, making profit and serving the nation. He whipped inertia, indolence and backwardness as well as indifference to reforms. Our country, he writes, needs cultivated minds first of all. He drew the attention of the nobility to the importance of trading as modern production cannot be separated from it. Széchenyi recognised the value of uncultivated material and the worth of thinking in our land as well as our nation’s power to regenerate. The study reflects the struggles and thoughts of the very enterprising Széchenyi, a man whose actions and ideals have been sparkling through centuries.

István Király, Theoretical and Practical Work of Count Imre Széchényi:

The author draws a general picture of Imre Széchényi, an outstanding personality in local historiography as well as a writer of several books regarded as significant throughout all the country. Király analyses Széchényi’s Letters from America that came out in 1883. Then he interprets all the remaining main works published by the Count, including The Only Child and The Monography of the County of Somogy. Ha explains the learned Count’s opinion of society and economy, his philosophy of life and his practical work.

László Szita, The Fight of the Hungarian Army Against the Turks as Reflected in Western European Press Between 1688 and 1698:

The part Hungary played in the war against Turkish rule had not been detailed in earlier historical sources. The author is publishing a part of his monograph based on research in foreign, mainly German and Austrian, archives. Szita gives a favourable picture of the Hungarians of the time when numerous military units of Hungarian soldiers fought the Turks on different battlefields. He also describes the role of these units in the war which they fought in different parts of the country for a long time. Western European press of the time published a number of war reports but, so far, they have not been available to Hungarians. Szita describes not only military expeditions but also the cooperation between soldiers and Hungarian peasants in war and reconstruction. His thorough examination of the Western European press of the decade justifies his statement that Hungarian soldiers played a heroic role in the war against the Turks.

Dániel Szabó, What is Europe (Supposed to Be) Like? Pictures of Europe in Dualist Hungary:

The answers to the question, „What is Europe like?” or „What is Europe supposed to be like?” were given in Hungary during the Monarchy according to the respondents’ selfrespect, their values and their understanding of the terrain regarded to be Europe. The interaction among these factors formed the idea of

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