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The Once and Future Budapest – Book Review
German Studies Review
  • Harry Ritter, Western Washington University
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
10-1-2006
Disciplines
Abstract

Robert Nemes has written a concise and useful overview of the expansion, mod ernization, and ethnic transformation of Budapest in the classic era of nineteenth century nationalism and liberalism, from the French Revolutionary era to the eve of World War I. The author tells the story of the rise of a metropolis imagined as a "national" (i. e., Magyar) capital city, in place of the older, prenationalist and socially corporatist seventeenth- and eighteenth-century towns of Ofen (Buda), ?buda, and Pest, which were largely German Sprachinseln straddling the Danube on the Hungarian plain.

Subjects - Names (LCNAF)
Nemes, Robert. Once and future Budapest
Geographic Coverage
Budapest (Hungary)--History--19th century
Genre/Form
reviews (documents)
Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Harry Ritter. "The Once and Future Budapest – Book Review" German Studies Review Vol. 29 Iss. 3 (2006) p. 676 - 677
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/harry_ritter/8/