The Creation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy

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.

Gábor Gyáni, Professor Emeritus at Research Centre for Humanities Institute of History and Lóránd Eötvös University Budapest, and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is social historian with a particular interest in the urban world, mentality history and historical theory.

Introduction. Hungary's Contribution to the Creation of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy Part 1: Experience, Memory and Historiography 1. From Concession to Catastrophe? On the Relationship Between the 1867 Compromise and Trianon 2. The Symbolic World of 1867 3. Nation State Building with "Peaceful Equalizing" and the Hungarian Historical Consciousness 4. Long Swings in the Historiography of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy Part 2: Ideas and Institutions 5. Who is the Father of the Compromise? 6. Between Patriotism and Ethnicity. Hardships of Defining the Modern Concept of a Hungarian Nation at the mid-19th Century 7. Parallel Nation-Building in Transylvania and the Question of the Unification with Hungary prior to 1867 8. The Compromise and the Potentials of the Constitutional Politics in Hungary Part 3: Emancipation and Identity 9. Jewish Emancipation as a Compromise 10. The Influence of the Compromise on the Spirit of Ballhaus-platz. The Formation of the Foreign Affairs Officials' National Identity Part 4: Economic Consequences 11. Spatial Inequalities and Unbalanced Development in Hungary in the Dualist Era 12. Austrian and Hungarian Imperial Ambitions. Race and Cooperation in the Maritime Commerce, 1867-1914