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The Once and Future Budapest
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice 2006
"Nemes's imaginative and carefully researched book provides invaluable insight into the complex worlds of nineteenth-century nationalism and urbanism in Central Europe."—American Historical Review
"Erudite and entertaining.... Nemes skillfully weaves together material from a wide variety of sources to produce a richly textured analysis."—Journal of Modern History.
"Stimulating and well-written ... informative, original, and highly readable."—Slavic Review
Tracing the complex process by which Budapest became a Hungarian city, Robert Nemes offers an open-ended picture of nation-building and urban development. In 1800, the towns of Buda, Pest, and Óbuda-which would later unite to form Budapest-were dusty, provincial, and largely German-speaking. By century's end, Budapest had become a burgeoning metropolis, a capital, and a manifestly Hungarian city. Few nineteenth-century cities grew as rapidly, and in none was nationalism woven so tightly into the urban fabric.
(2005) 259 pp., notes, bibliography, index
Robert Nemes is Assistant Professor of History at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
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