Recent collection of essays discusses the historical event and the multifarious consequences of the 1867 Compromise (Ausgleich, Settlement), conducted between the Habsburg monarch, Francis Joseph and the Hungarian political ruling class. The whole story has usually been narrated from a plainly Cisleithanian viewpoint. The present volume, the product of Hungarian historians, gives an insight into both the domestic and the international historical discourses about the Dual Monarchy. It also reveals the process of how the 1867 Compromise was conducted, and touches upon several of the key issues brought about by establishing a constitutional dual state in place of the absolutist Habsburg Monarchy. The emphasis is laid not on describing and explaining the path leading to the final and "inevitable" break-up of the Dual Monarchy, but on what actually held it together for half a century. The local outcomes of self-maintaining mechanisms were no less obvious in the Hungarian part of the Dual Monarchy, despite the many manifestations of an overt adversity toward it. The Creation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy will appeal to historians dealing especially with 19th-century European history, and is also essential reading for university students.
Author(s): Gábor Gyáni
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 352
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Tables
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Hungary's Contribution to the Creation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Notes
Bibliography
Part I: Experience, Memory and Historiography
1. Towards a Catastrophe with a Compromise?: On the Connection of the 1867 Compromise and the Treaty of Trianon
Notes
Bibliography
2. The Symbolic World of 1867: Self-Representation of the Dual Monarchy in Hungary
State Insignia in the Labyrinths of Constitutional Debates
The Representation of Institutions of the Dual Monarchy
Delegations
Common Bank and Money
The "All the Army"
On the International Scene
Scholarly and Artistic Representation
Franz Joseph as a Symbol
Conclusion: Monarchical Consciousness and Nation Building in Hungary
Notes
Bibliography
Printed sources
Secondary Literature
3. Nation-State Building with "Peaceful Equalizing," and the Hungarian Historical Consciousness
"Peaceful Equalizing" and/or Compromise
The Compromise Debated in Hungarian Historical Scholarship
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
4. Long Swings in the Historiography of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
The Historical Experience of the Collapse
The Past and Future of "Central Europe"
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Part II: Ideas and Institutions
5. Who Was the Father of the Compromise?
Hungarian Conservative and Liberal Programs for Settlement in 1860 and 1861
Constitutional Programs Between 1861 and 1867
Fundamental Laws
Unified Empire, Federative Empire or Dualism?
What Could Imperial Common Affairs Be?
Possible Ways of Legislation Concerning Common Affairs
The Executive Body of Common Affairs
The Possible Course of Constitutional Settlement
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Appendix
6. Between Patriotism and Ethnicity: Hardships of Defining the Modern Concept of a Hungarian Nation at the Mid-19th Century
Notes
Literature
7. Parallel Nation-Building in Transylvania and the Issue of the Union with Hungary Prior to the Austro-Hungarian Compromise
Transylvania's Position Before 1848 and the Antecedents of the Idea of the Union
From the Revolution to the Compromise
The Compromise and the Question of Transylvania
Summary
Notes
Bibliography
8. The Compromise and the Potentials of the Constitutional Politics in Hungary
Constitutional Reform and the Attempts of Common Constitutionalism
The Constitutional Community as a Political Framework
The New Position of the Crown and the Country
Government and Popular Representation
Authority and Citizen
Closing Remarks
Notes
Bibliography
Part III: Emancipation and Identity
9. Jewish Emancipation as a Compromise
Moral Regeneration and Magyarization (1839-1840)
Increasing Expectations, Social Fusion, and Religious Reform (1841-1848)
Pressure and Resistance (1848-1849)
Benevolence and Disappointment (1850-1867)
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Archival and Manuscript Sources
Printed Primary Sources
Literature
10. The Influence of the Compromise on the Spirit of Ballhausplatz: The Formation of the Foreign Affairs Officials' National Identity
The Spirit of Ballhausplatz ("Austrian" Identity?)
Officials Who Were Hungarian Nationals Entering Service Before 1871
Those Who Entered Service of the Common Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the 1870s
Citizenship - National Identity at the Turn of the Century
Transformation of Identity Over the Decades of the Consolidation of Dualism
Those Who Saw the Future?
Notes
Bibliography
Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, Wien [HHStA.]
Kriegsarchiv, Wien [KA]
Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest [MOL]
Országos Széchenyi Könyvtár, Budapest [OSZK]
SSEES Library, University College of London
Literature
Part IV: Economic Consequences
11. Territorial Disparities and Uneven Development in Hungary During the Time of Dualism
The Regional Approach
The General Development of Agriculture and the Regional (Ethnic) Aspects of Agrarian Overpopulation
Regional Features of Taxation (Connection Between Ethnic Conditions and Taxes)
The Connection Among Patterns of Ethnic Character, Health Care, Political Behavior, and the Stage of Development
Regional Differences in Development Level
Identification of Areas with Similar Endowments (Formal Regions)
Notes
Bibliography
12. Austrian and Hungarian Imperial Ambitions: Competition and Co-operation in Maritime Trade, 1867-1914
Conflict and Seeking a Solution
The Nature of Competition - Private Companies of the State
An Emphatic Field of Cooperation: Marine Knowledge Production
Closing Remarks
Notes
Bibliography
Archival sources
Literature and published sources
Index
