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| Foreword to the English Edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "Heathen Barbarians" overrun Europe: Evidence from St Gallen | |
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| Land Acquisition or Conquest? The Question of Hungarian Identity | |
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| From Magyar Mayhem to the Christian Kingdom of the Arpads | |
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| The Struggle for Continuity and Freedom | |
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| The Mongol Invasion of 1241 and its Consequences | |
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| Hungary's Rise to Great Power Status under Foreign Kings | |
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| The Heroic Age of the Hunyadis and the Turkish Danger | |
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| The Long Road to the Catastrophe of Mohacs | |
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| The Disaster of Ottoman Rule | |
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| Transylvania--the Stronghold of Hungarian Sovereignty | |
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| Gabor Bethlen--Vassal, Patriot and European | |
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| Zrinyi or Zrinski? One Hero for Two Nations | |
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| The Kuruc Leader Thokoly: Adventurer or Traitor? | |
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| Ferenc Rakoczi's Fight for Freedom from the Habsburgs | |
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| Myth and Historiography: an Idol through the Ages | |
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| Hungary in the Habsburg Shadow | |
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| The Fight Against the "Hatted King" | |
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| Abbot Martinovics and the Jacobin Plot | |
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| Count Istvan Szechenyi and the "Reform Era": the "Greatest Hungarian" | |
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| Lajos Kossuth and Sandor Petofi: Symbols of 1848 | |
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| Victories, Defeat and Collapse: the Lost War of Independence, 1849 | |
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| Kossuth the Hero versus "Judas" Gorgey: "Good" and "Bad" in Sacrificial Mythology | |
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| Who was Captain Gusev? Russian "Freedom Fighters" between Minsk and Budapest | |
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| Elisabeth, Andrassy and Bismarck: Austria and Hungary on the Road to Reconciliation | |
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| Victory in Defeat: the Compromise and the Consequences of Dualism | |
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| Total Blindness: The Hungarian Sense of Mission and the Nationalities | |
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| The "Golden Age" of the Millennium: Modernization with Drawbacks | |
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| "Magyar Jew or Jewish Magyar?" A Unique Symbiosis | |
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| "Will Hungary be German or Magyar?" The Germans' Peculiar Role | |
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| From the Great War to the "Dictatorship of Despair": the Red Count and Lenin's Agent | |
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| The Admiral on a White Horse: Trianon and the Death Knell of St Stephen's Realm | |
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| Adventurers, Counterfeiters, Claimants to the Throne: Hungary as Troublemaker in the Danube Basin | |
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| Marching in Step with Hitler: Triumph and Fall. From the Persecution of Jews to Mob Rule | |
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| Victory in Defeat: 1945-1990 | |
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| "Everyone is a Hungarian": Geniuses and Artists | |
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| Summing-up | |
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| Notes | |
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| Chronology of Significant Events in Hungarian History | |
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| Index | |