Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1
A Portrait of 18th Century Hungary
The Country
The People
The Institutions
Chapter 2
The Joy and the Agony of Standing Still
The Sense of Permanence
Habsburg Modernization in Hungary
“Extra Hungariam non est Vita”
The Baroque in Hungary
Service and Resistance
Chapter 3
The Enlightenment and Cultural Sensibilities: A Comparative Historical Perspective
The Enlightenment
Cultural Sensibilities
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Chapter 4
The Slow Erosion of Traditionalism
The War-time Diets
The Biedermeyer
The Multiplicity of Moods
Cultural Nationalism
Ferenc Kazinczy
Chapter 5
The Ambiguous Journey Toward Reforms
The Hungarian Theater, Music, and the Arts
Cultural Breakthroughs: Romanticism
The 1825–27 Diet
Chapter 6
The Hungarian Age of Reform in the 1830s
The Early-mid 1830s: The Triumphant Years of Count István Széchenyi
The Diets of the Early-mid 1830s: Wesselényi and Széchenyi
Government Aggression Against the Liberals
The 1839–40 Diet
Chapter 7
The Hungarian Age of Reform in the 1840s
Lajos Kossuth and Count Aurél Dessewffy: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Issue of Nationality
The Széchenyi-Kossuth debate
The 1843–44 Diet
Social and Economic Developments: Kossuth’s Védegylet
Political and Cultural Pluralism
1847–48
Epilogue
Works Cited
