A History of Hungary

by Peter F. Sugar (Editor), Tibor Frank (Editor), Péter Hanák (Editor)

Very Good Hardcover Bloomington and Indiana University Press, 1990. First edition, first printing. Purple cloth with dustjacket. The book is very good with firm binding, clean pages with just a few scholarly margin notes lightly written in pencil, name at top of front free endpaper. The mylar protected dustjacket is also very good with no chips or tears.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Genres: History, Hungary, Nonfiction, European History

432 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1990

Reviews

[Brian Griffith]

A good series of studies on the origins of the Hungarian people deep in Inner Asia, their commonly violent migrations westwards, and the states or empires they carved out or conquered in Eastern Europe. The depictions of Hungarians with ox-pulled wagons, cows driven by men on horseback, and pots of goulash cooked around campfires, seem to be the spitting image of Europe's invaders of the American West.

[Glen]

A good, though dated, academic history of Hungary.

[Jim]

This is a collection of essays by different authors, most of them Hungarian, written specifically for this book. As is to be expected, some of the essays are better than others and range from the perfunctory to the excellent. In general, the book is best in dealing with the period from the Ottoman Occupation through the Revolution of 1848.

The chapters dealing with the 20th century (excepting Charles Gati's superb chapter on the Soviet rule from 1947 through the Revolution of 1956) tend to be recitations of economic figures with a parade of names that are quickly introduced and shunted aside.

Still, this is an area of the world that is virtually unknown to the West except perhaps for a few memories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the 1956 Revolution.

I think this is a book that should be ventured only by a person such as myself who is of Hungarian ancestry and wants to learn more. There is a lot of information here, but much of it would not be of great interest to the average American.

[Ken]

Whew!

[Maggie]

A bit dry but I learned a little.

[Doria]

Very informative overview of Hungarian history from about 950 to 1990.