Hungary's Historical Legacies

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íHungary's ^íistoricaC Legacies
Edited by Dennis P. Hupciiick and
R. William Weisberger
Nineteen leading scholars of Hungarian political, cultural, economic, demographic, literary, and linguistic history have joined together to honor Dr. Steven Béla Várdy, McAnulty Distinguished Professor of European History at Duquesne University — a prolific and internationally known scholar and a consummate educator. Under the editorship of two of his former graduate students, this collection of articles addresses issues in Hungarian history that play prominent roles in Professor Várdy's own scholarly and literary efforts. Recognized as the leading American historiographer of Hungary, he is presented here with three historiographical studies, two of which address the crucial issue of the Trianon Treaty and its impact upon the collective Hungarian psyche. As the leading scholar of the Hungarian immigrant experience in North America and one of the world's experts in immigration studies, Várdy... Tovább

Fülszöveg

íHungary's ^íistoricaC Legacies
Edited by Dennis P. Hupciiick and
R. William Weisberger
Nineteen leading scholars of Hungarian political, cultural, economic, demographic, literary, and linguistic history have joined together to honor Dr. Steven Béla Várdy, McAnulty Distinguished Professor of European History at Duquesne University — a prolific and internationally known scholar and a consummate educator. Under the editorship of two of his former graduate students, this collection of articles addresses issues in Hungarian history that play prominent roles in Professor Várdy's own scholarly and literary efforts. Recognized as the leading American historiographer of Hungary, he is presented here with three historiographical studies, two of which address the crucial issue of the Trianon Treaty and its impact upon the collective Hungarian psyche. As the leading scholar of the Hungarian immigrant experience in North America and one of the world's experts in immigration studies, Várdy is honored with essays dealing with Hungarian immigration and demography, supplemented by studies on American-Hungarian cold war relations surrounding the return of the Holy Crown of St. Stephen to Hungary, and the intellectual precepts of one of the most noted Hungarian immigrants, Oscar Jászi. Professor Várdy's interest in Hungarian intellectual and political matters are treated by a number of articles on the Pre-Reform and Reform periods of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as by a comprehensive study on the role that political history enjoys in the shaping of Hungary's post-Communist developments. There are also studies on pre-World War II Soviet-Hungarian relations, leaders and events of the 1956 Revolution and its aftermath, and contemporary Hungarian historical fiction. This is complemented by a list of Professor Várdy's publications, the editors' survey of his academic contributions and the contributed studies, as well as by letters of tribute from family and friends. An index of proper names found in the enclosed essays round out this
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The "Editors
Dennis P. Hupchick, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of History and Director of the East European and Russian Studies Program at Wiiices University, Pennsylvania, and past President of the Bulgarian Studies Association. He is the author of A Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe (1996), Conflict and Chaos in Eastern Europe (1995), Culture and History in Eastern Europe (1994), and The Bulgarians in the Seventeenth Century (1993). He is also the author of numerous articles in Bulgarian and Balkan cultural history, and the editor of two collections of articles on Bulgarian Studies, among them The Pen and the Sword: Studies in Bulgarian History by James F. Clarke (1988). In 1989 Dr. Hupchick was a Fulbright Scholar in Bulgaria, and is currently completing a comprehensive history of the Balkans scheduled to appear in the year 2000.
R. William Weisberger, Ph.D., is Professor of History and Sociology at Butler County Community College, Pennsylvania, and Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Speculative Freemasonry and the Enlightenment (1993) and of numerous articles on Enlightenment-era Freemasonry in the United States and Europe. Among them are his highly acclaimed "Benjamin Franklin: A Masonic Enlightener in Paris" (1986), and "The True Harmony Lodge: A Mecca of Masonry and the Enlightenment of Josephinian Vienna" (1986). He regularly contributes book reviews to a number of noted journals, and entries to encyclopedias and biographical collections. Vissza