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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 | |