Budapest and New York

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BUDAPEST IWW YORK STUDIES IN METROPOLITAN TRANSFORMATION, 1870-1930
Edited by Thomas Bender Carl E. Schorske
Little over a century ago, New York and Budapest were both flourishing cities engaging in spectacular modernization. By 1930 New York had emerged as an innovating cosmopolitan metropolis, while Budapest languished under the conditions that would foster fascism. Budapest and New York explores the increasingly divergent trajectories of these once-similar cities through the perspectives of both American and Hungarian experts in the fields of political, cultural, social, and art history. Their original essays illuminate key aspects of urban life that most reveal the tum-of-the-century evolution of New York and Budapest: democratic participation, use of public space, neighborhood ethnicity, and culture high and low.
What comes across most strikingly in these essays is New York's cultivation of social and political pluralism, a trend not found in Budapest. Nationalist... Tovább

Fülszöveg

BUDAPEST IWW YORK STUDIES IN METROPOLITAN TRANSFORMATION, 1870-1930
Edited by Thomas Bender Carl E. Schorske
Little over a century ago, New York and Budapest were both flourishing cities engaging in spectacular modernization. By 1930 New York had emerged as an innovating cosmopolitan metropolis, while Budapest languished under the conditions that would foster fascism. Budapest and New York explores the increasingly divergent trajectories of these once-similar cities through the perspectives of both American and Hungarian experts in the fields of political, cultural, social, and art history. Their original essays illuminate key aspects of urban life that most reveal the tum-of-the-century evolution of New York and Budapest: democratic participation, use of public space, neighborhood ethnicity, and culture high and low.
What comes across most strikingly in these essays is New York's cultivation of social and political pluralism, a trend not found in Budapest. Nationalist ideology exerted tremendous pressure on Budapest's ethnic groups to assimilate to a single Hungarian language and culture. In contrast. New York's ethnic diversity was transmitted through a mass culture that celebrated ethnicity while muting distinct ethnic traditions, making them accessible to a national audience. While Budapest succumbed to the patriotic imperatives of a nation threatened by war, revolution, and fascism. New York, free from such pressures, embraced the variety of its people and transformed its urban ethos into a paradigm for America.
Budapest and New York is the lively story of the making of metropolitan culture in Europe and America, and of the influential relationship between city and nation. In unifying essays, the editors observe comparisons not only between the cities, but in the scholarly outlooks and methodologies
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of Hungarian and American historians. This volume is a unique urban history. Begun under the unfavorable conditions of a divided world, it represents a breakthrough in crossoultural, transnational, and interdisciplinary historical work.
"Budapest and New York represents the internationalization of scholarly cooperation on an intensive and highly competent level of comparative history. The substantive data accumulated here are not, and are not likely to be, available elsewhere." —István Deák, Institute of East Central Europe, Columbia University
"The beginnings of the 20th century brought about major changes in the world, and formed the basis for societal, political, and urban development in the later years of this century. As case studies, the juxtaposition of New York City and the City of Budapest could not be more fascinating." —The Honorable David N. Dinkins, Mayor of New York
" warmly recommended The volume is a bridge between New York and Budapest. I hope that as many of us as possible will cross that bridge." —The Honorable Gabor Demszky, Mayor of Budapest
Contributors: Thomas Bender, Elizabeth Blackmar, Géza Buzinkay, Wanda Corn, Philip Fisher, Éva Forgáes, Gábor Gyáni, David Hammaek, Péter Hanák, Neil Harris, Miklós Laekó, Deborah Dash Moore, Zsuzsa L. Nagy, Roy Rosenzweig, Cari E. Schorske, Robert Snyder, and István Teplán.
Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and professor of history at New York University. Cart E. Schorske is professor emeritus at Princeton University, and the PuUtzer Prize-winning author of Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture.
Jacket design: Bill Bennett
of the world s greatest cities become more comprehensible and appealing in the pages of Budapest and New York. Thomas Bender and Carl Schorske have assembled a remarkable cast of American and Hungarian authorities to explore the city along the Hudson and the city straddling the Danube, from the late 19th through the first half of the 20th century. This book is a model of the new urban history, edited and integrated by two great masters of the art, and a sign of hope for collaborative history across boundaries of nation and historiographical tradition.^
— Natalie Zemon Davis, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Princeton University
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