The Politics of Backwardness in Hungary, 1825-1945

by Andrew C. Janos

Book Overview

Why did Hungary, a country that shared much of the religious and institutional heritage of western Europe, fail to replicate the social and political experiences of the latter in the nineteenth and early twenties centuries? The answer, the author argues, lies not with cultural idiosyncracies or historical accident, but with the internal dynamics of the modern world system that stimulated aspirations not easily realizable within the confines of backward...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069110123X
• ISBN13: 9780691101231
• Release Date: April 1982
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.