CEU History Department Yearbook 1993

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The CEU History Department was founded in 1991. Since than, the Department has successfully conducted one teacher-training and two MA one-year courses. A major aspiration of the History Department is to develop a fruitful combination of the best European traditions with American initiative and efficiency. When this is accomplished, the CEU History Department wül become an ideal place for historians and students to inquire into historical conditions and tasks, as weU as the alternatives of European and Central European integration - not dogmatically seeking to achieve abstract goals, but objectively investigating the lessons of past experience.
The first Yearbook of the History Department collected the recent works by the international faculty and some outstanding students on Central Europe, a region in transition. A variety of studies offer a comprehensive picture of Central European history from the sixteenth century to the 1950s: the collected essays deal with among other... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The CEU History Department was founded in 1991. Since than, the Department has successfully conducted one teacher-training and two MA one-year courses. A major aspiration of the History Department is to develop a fruitful combination of the best European traditions with American initiative and efficiency. When this is accomplished, the CEU History Department wül become an ideal place for historians and students to inquire into historical conditions and tasks, as weU as the alternatives of European and Central European integration - not dogmatically seeking to achieve abstract goals, but objectively investigating the lessons of past experience.
The first Yearbook of the History Department collected the recent works by the international faculty and some outstanding students on Central Europe, a region in transition. A variety of studies offer a comprehensive picture of Central European history from the sixteenth century to the 1950s: the collected essays deal with among other topics, the reception of liberal ideas, Jewish emancipation, new research on a humanistic chronicle, illiteracy of Hungarian nobility, compromise and disintegration in the Habsburg Monarchy and working women in the Stalinist period.
In addition to the above mentioned essays, the volume also contains a summary of the History Department's activities and a list of the Department's alumni. Vissza