Liberal Professions and Illiberal Politics: Hungary from the Habsburgs to the Holocaust

by Mária M. Kovács

Book Overview

In this important new historical study, M ria Kov cs examines the struggle between liberal and anti-Semitic policies among professional groups--doctors, lawyers, engineers--in Hungary. Kov cs's main emphasis is on the interwar period when unemployment, expansion of the welfare system, and competition for state jobs during the Great Depression, combined with crass anti-Semitism on the part of engineers and medical associations, radically altered previously...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195085973
• ISBN13: 9780195085976
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"