One Thousand Years

In this unique fusion of politics, society, and culture, scholars address such topics as the migration and settlement, the founding of the Hungarian state, the flourishing of the medieval Hungarian kingdom and its subsequent decline under the Ottoman conquest, and the periodic wars of independence to throw off Ottoman and Hapsburg dominion. Turning to the modern era, scholars address the social reform movement in the nineteenth century leading to the rise of the middle class and to the drive toward modernization, as well as the development from popular democracy to socialism in the aftermath of wars and revolution.