Gábor Gyáni - The Creation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: A Hungarian Perspective

Recent collection of essays discusses the historical event and the multifarious consequences of the 1867 Compromise (Ausgleich, Settlement), conducted between the Habsburg monarch, Franz Joseph and the Hungarian political ruling class. The whole story has usually been narrated from a plainly Cisleithanian viewpoint. The present volume, the product of Hungarian historians, gives an insight into both the domestic and the international historical discourses about the dual monarchy. It also reveals the process of how the 1867 Compromise was conducted, and touches upon several of the key issues brought about by establishing a constitutional dual state in place of the absolutist Habsburg Monarchy. The emphasis is laid not on describing and explaining the path leading to the final and inevitable break-up of the dual monarchy, but on what actually held it together for half a century. The local outcomes of self-maintaining mechanisms were no less obvious in the Hungarian part of the dual monarchy, despite the many manifestations of an overt adversity toward it. The Creation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy will appeal to historians dealing especially with 19th-century European history, and is also essential reading for university students.

Gbor Gyni, is professor emeritus at Research Centre for Humanities Institute of History and Lornd Etvs University Budapest, and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is a social historian with a particular interest in the urban world, mentality history and historical theory.

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Edited by Gbor Gyni

Translated by Katalin Rcz and
Bob Dent

First published 2022

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Names: Conflict and Cooperation: 150 Years of the Austro-Hungarian Settlement (2017 : Magyar Tudomnyos Akadmia) | Gyni, Gbor, editor. | Rcz, Katalin (Translator), translator. | Dent, Bob, translator.

Title: The creation of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy : a Hungarian perspective / edited by Gbor Gyni ; translated by Katalin Rcz and Bob Dent.

Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Series: Routledge studies in modern European history | were translated from Hungarian into Englishemail from Publisher. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: LCSH: Austro-Hungarian Compromise, 1867Congresses. | HungaryPolitics and government1849-1918Congresses. | AustriaPolitics and government1848-1918Congresses. | Habsburg, House ofCongresses.

Classification: LCC DB945 .C66 2017 | DDC 943.6/044dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021014144

ISBN: 978-1-032-04914-4 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-032-04916-8 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-003-19516-0 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781003195160

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List of Tables

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Hungarys Contribution to the Creation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
GBOR GYNI

PART I Experience, Memory and Historiography

Towards a Catastrophe with a Compromise? On the Connection of the 1867 Compromise and the Treaty of Trianon
IVN BERTNYI, JR.

The Symbolic World of 1867: Self-representation of the Dual Monarchy in Hungary
ANDRS CIEGER

Nation-State Building with Peaceful Equalizing, and the Hungarian Historical Consciousness
GBOR GYNI

Long Swings in the Historiography of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
GYRGY KVR

PART II Ideas and Institutions

Who Was the Father of the Compromise?
GNES DEK

Between Patriotism and Ethnicity: Hardships of Defining the Modern Concept of a Hungarian Nation at the Mid-19th Century
LSZL L. LAJTAI

Parallel Nation-Building in Transylvania and the Issue of the Union with Hungary Prior to the Austro-Hungarian Compromise
JUDIT PL

The Compromise and the Potentials of the Constitutional Politics in Hungary
GYRGY MIRU

PART III Emancipation and Identity

Jewish Emancipation as a Compromise
MIKLS KONRD

The Influence of the Compromise on the Spirit of Ballhausplatz: The Formation of the Foreign Affairs Officials National Identity
VA SOMOGYI

PART IV Economic Consequences

Territorial Disparities and Uneven Development in Hungary During the Time of Dualism
GBOR DEMETER

Austrian and Hungarian Imperial Ambitions: Competition and Co-operation in Maritime Trade, 18671914
VERONIKA ESZIK

Index

10.1 Officials with Hungarian Citizenship in the Common Ministry of Foreign Affairs

10.2 Diplomats with Hungarian Citizenship in Charge of Missions Abroad

11.1 Difference in Profitability of Smallholdings and Large Estates in Hungary in 1865 (Cadastral Land Income Without Animal Husbandry)

11.2 The Effect of Corn Overproduction on the Trends of Prices and Consumption in the Monarchy

11.3 Change of Agricultural Indicators Between 1865 and 1910

11.4 Indicators Selected for Surveying the Stage of Development