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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Colors, Words, Sounds | |
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| The painter Munkacsy's funeral | |
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| His rise and fall | |
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| The seasons of Budapest | |
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| The atmosphere of the city in 1900 | |
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| Three writers of Budapest in 1900 | |
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| Krudy's descriptions of the city | |
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| Differences between Budapest and Vienna | |
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| 1900 a turning point in the history of Budapest | |
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| The City | |
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| Its physical situation | |
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| Its districts | |
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| Its buildings and architecture | |
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| The crowding of the city | |
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| Rail, river and road; other communications; public services | |
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| Material progress and population increase | |
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| The reputation of Budapest abroad | |
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| The People | |
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| The historical developments of Buda and Pest | |
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| Their unification | |
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| The "Millennium" | |
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| State and conditions of the population in 1900 | |
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| Bourgeois influences | |
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| Culinary habits and changes | |
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| Criminality and prostitution | |
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| Athletics and sports | |
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| The structure of classes; the old nobility; the gentry | |
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| the financial aristocracy and the patrician class | |
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| Changes in the composition of the wealthy classes | |
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| The Jewish population | |
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| The working classes | |
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| The rigidities of class consciousness | |
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| Social mobility | |
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| The Magyarization of Budapest | |
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| Elements of bourgeois civilization | |
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| Relations of the sexes | |
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| Financial lightheadedness and probity | |
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| Politics and Powers | |
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| The Parliament | |
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| Rhetorical habits and customs | |
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| Nationalist optimism | |
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| The worsening of parliamentary behavior | |
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| Historical and constitutional development of the Hungarian state | |
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| The Compromise of 1867 | |
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| The political crisis of 1890 | |
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| The unraveling of the political equilibrium | |
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| The fallings of Hungarian prestige abroad | |
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| The problem of the nationalities | |
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| The decline of Liberalism | |
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| The Social Democrats | |
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| Anti-Semitism | |
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| The new Catholic party and movement | |
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| The 1905 elections and the end of the Liberal monopoly in Budapest | |
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| The Generation of 1900 | |
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| The concept of generations | |
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| What the Generation of 1900 had in common | |
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| Its members | |
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| The Budapest schools | |
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| The cultural atmosphere | |
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| Book publishing | |
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| The coffeehouses and their culture | |
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| The Budapest press | |
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| Literary journals | |
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| Hungarian literature in 1900 | |
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| Writers of the generation of 1900 | |
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| Three well-known writers abroad | |
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| The great writers unknown abroad | |
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| The Ady explosion | |
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| The populist pioneers | |
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| The boulevardier talents | |
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| The new painters of the generation | |
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| The modern nationalist architects | |
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| Bartok and Kodaly | |
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| Theatrical and musical culture and the entertainment industry | |
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| Retrospective criticism of a generation by Szekfu and others | |
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| Its subsequent revision | |
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| Seeds of Troubles | |
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| Decline of the general equilibrium in 1900 | |
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| Attacks on Liberalism | |
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| The changing condition of the gentry | |
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| A new nationalism | |
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| Attacks on Budapest | |
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| A new variety of anti-Semitism | |
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| Left and Right: the symptomatic development of the Society of Social Science | |
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| A semblance of prosperity and peace before 1914 | |
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| Catholicism in Budapest around 1900 | |
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| The summer of 1914 | |
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| German ideological and cultural influence | |
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| Since Then | |
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| Budapest during the First World War | |
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| The end of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and the Budapest October Revolution | |
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| The short-lived Radical and Communist governments | |
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| The nationalist reaction | |
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| The amputation of Hungary | |
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| The recovery of the twenties | |
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| The shadow of the Third Reich | |
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| Budapest during the Second World War | |
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| Its German and Russian occupation; the siege of Budapest | |
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| Its destruction | |
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| Under Communism | |
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| The 1956 Rising | |
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| The rebuilding of the city | |
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| The tourist invasion; Budapest revisited | |
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| References | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |