Geography
General works
Overviews of the history, geography, and people of Hungary and its social, economic, and cultural life are provided by Stephen R. Burant (ed.), Hungary: A Country Study, 2nd ed. (1990); Ferenc Erdei (ed.), Information Hungary (1968), for the communist era; and Éva Molnár (ed.), Hungary: Essential Facts, Figures, and Pictures (1995), for the postcommunist era. Various aspects of geography are treated by Márton Pécsi and Béla Sárfalvi, The Geography of Hungary (1964); Márton Pécsi, Geomorphological Regions of Hungary (1970); and Tivadar Bernát (ed.), An Economic Geography of Hungary, 2nd ed. (1989).
Special topics
Special topics are considered in Lóránt Czigány, The Oxford History of Hungarian Literature from the Earliest Times to the Present (1984); Albert Tezla, Hungarian Authors: A Bibliographical Handbook (1970); Graham Petrie, History Must Answer to Man: The Contemporary Hungarian Cinema (1978); Francis S. Wagner, Hungarian Contribution to World Civilization, 2nd ed. (1991); Elemér Bakó, Guide to Hungarian Studies, 2 vol. (1973); S.B. Várdy, Clio’s Art in Hungary and in Hungarian-America (1985); and András Gerö and János Poór (eds.), Budapest: A History from Its Beginnings to 1998, trans. from Hungarian (1997).
The Hungarian diaspora
Hungarians in the surrounding states are profiled in Ferenc Glatz, Minorities in East-Central Europe (1993); Béla Köpeczi (ed.), History of Transylvania, 3 vol. (2001–02); Stephen Borsody (ed.), The Hungarians: A Divided Nation (1988); Raphael Vágó, The Grandchildren of Trianon: Hungary and the Hungarian Minority in the Communist States (1989); László Szarka (ed.), Hungary and the Hungarian Minorities, trans. from Hungarian (2004); Sándor Bíró, The Nationalities Problem in Transylvania, 1867–1940: A Social History of the Romanian Minority Under Hungarian Rule, 1967–1918, and of the Hungarian Minority Under Romanian Rule, 1918–1940 (1992; originally published in Hungarian, 1989); Rudolf Joó and Andrew Ludányi (eds.), The Hungarian Minority’s Situation in Ceausescu’s Romania (1994); Kálmán Janics, Czechoslovak Policy and the Hungarian Minority, 1945–1948 (1982); and Elemér Bakó and William Sólyom-Fekete, Hungarians in Rumania and Transylvania: A Bibliographical List of Publications in Hungarian and West European Languages (1969). Hungarians in North America are the subject of Julianna Puskás, From Hungary to the United States, 1880–1914 (1982), and Ties That Bind, Ties That Divide: 100 Years of Hungarian Experience in the United States, trans. from Hungarian (2000); S.B. Várdy, The Hungarian-Americans, 2nd ed. (2001); and N.F. Dreisziger et al., Struggle and Hope: The Hungarian-Canadian Experience (1982).
History
General works
Overviews of Hungarian history include C.A. Macartney, Hungary, a Short History (1962); Peter F. Sugar, Péter Hanák, and Tibor Frank (eds.), A History of Hungary (1990); Stephen Sisa, The Spirit of Hungary, 4th ed. (1999); László Kontler, Millennium in Central Europe: A History of Hungary (1999; reissued as A History of Hungary: Millennium in Central Europe, 2002); and Paul Lendvai, The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat (2003; originally published in German, 1999). Useful historical atlases include Paul Robert Magocsi, Historical Atlas of Central Europe, rev. and expanded ed. (2002); and Dennis P. Hupchick and Harold E. Cox, Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe (1996). Other useful historical references include S.B. Várdy, Historical Dictionary of Hungary, 2nd ed. (1997), and Modern Hungarian Historiography (1976).
Middle Ages and early modern period
Medieval and early modern Hungarian history are covered in C.A. Macartney, The Magyars in the Ninth Century (1930, reprinted 1968), and Studies on Early Hungarian and Pontic History (1998); Imre Boba, Nomads, Northmen, and Slavs: Eastern Europe in the Ninth Century (1967); Charles R. Bowlus, Franks, Moravians, and Magyars, 788–907 (1995); Péter Püspöki-Nagy, On the Location of Great Moravia (1982); Pál Engel, The Realm of St. Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895–1526 (2005); Zoltán J. Kosztolnyik, From Coloman the Learned to Béla III, 1095–1196 (1987); Ferenc Makk, The Árpáds and the Comneni: Political Relations Between Hungary and Byzantium in the 12th Century (1989); Erik Fügedi, Castle and Society in Medieval Hungary, 1000–1437 (1986), and Kings, Bishops, Nobles, and Burghers in Medieval Hungary (1986); S.B. Várdy, G. Grosschmid, and L.S. Domonkos (eds.), Louis the Great, King of Hungary and Poland (1996); Joseph L. Held, Hunyadi: Legend and Reality (1985); Lajos Gerevich (ed.), Towns in Medieval Hungary (1991); Domokos Varga, Hungary in Greatness and Decline: The 14th and 15th Centuries (1982; originally published in Hungarian, 1970); Klára Hegyi and Vera Zimányi, The Ottoman Empire in Europe (1989; originally published in Hungarian, 1986); and Géza Perjés, The Fall of the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary: Mohács 1526–Buda 1541 (1989).
18th and 19th centuries
The 18th and 19th centuries are treated in the following works: C.A. Macartney, The Habsburg Empire, 1790–1918 (1969); Domokos G. Kosáry, Culture and Society in Eighteenth Century Hungary (1987); Béla K. Király, Hungary in the Late Eighteenth Century (1969); S.B. Várdy and A.H. Várdy (eds.), Triumph in Adversity: Studies in Hungarian Civilization (1988); George Barany, Stephen Széchenyi and the Awakening of Hungarian Nationalism, 1791–1841 (1968); János Mazsu, The Social History of the Hungarian Intelligentsia, 1825–1914, trans. from Hungarian (1997); István Deák, The Lawful Revolution: Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians, 1848–1849 (1979); Béla K. Király, Ferenc Deák (1975); Paul Bödy, Joseph Eötvös and the Modernization of Hungary, 1840–1870, 2nd ed. (1985); Anthony E. Sokol, The Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Navy (1968); István Deák, Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848–1918 (1990); Evolution of the Hungarian Economy 1848–1998, 3 vol. (2000–01); Jörg K. Hoensch, A History of Modern Hungary, 1867–1994, 2nd ed. (1996; originally published in German, 1984); András Gerö, The Hungarian Parliament, 1867–1918: A Mirage of Power, trans. from Hungarian (1997); John Lukács, Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture (1988); Gábor Gyáni, Identity and Urban Experience: Fin-de-Siècle Budapest, trans. from Hungarian (2004); Gabor Vermes, István Tisza: The Liberal Vision and Conservative Statecraft of a Magyar Nationalist (1985); S.B. Várdy and A.H. Várdy, The Austro-Hungarian Mind (1989); András Gerö, Emperor Francis Joseph: King of the Hungarians (2001; originally published in Hungarian, 1988); and Ferenc Glatz (ed.), Hungarians and Their Neighbors in Modern Times (1995).
From World War I through World War II
The interwar period is considered in Ignác Romsics, Hungary in the Twentieth Century (1999); C.A. Macartney, Hungary and Her Successors: The Treaty of Trianon and Its Consequences, 1919–1937, 2nd ed. (1968); Miklós Molnár, From Béla Kun to János Kádár: Seventy Years of Hungarian Communism (1990); Béla K. Király, P. Pastor, and I. Sanders (eds.), Essays on World War I: A Case Study of Trianon (1982); Ignác Romsics, The Dismantling of Historic Hungary: The Peace Treaty of Trianon, 1920 (2002; originally published in Hungarian, 2001); István Mócsy, The Effects of World War I: The Uprooted: Hungarian Refugees and Their Impact on Hungary’s Domestic Politics, 1918–1921 (1983); Ignác Romsics, István Bethlen: A Great Conservative Statesmen of Hungary, 1874–1946 (1995); Zsuzsa L. Nagy, The Liberal Opposition in Hungary, 1919–1945 (1983); György Péteri, Global Monetary Regime and National Central Banking: The Case of Hungary, 1921–1929, trans. from Hungarian (2002); György Réti, Hungarian-Italian Relations in the Shadow of Hitler’s Germany, 1933–1940 (2003; originally published in Hungarian, 1998); Mario D. Fenyo, Hitler, Horthy, and Hungary: German-Hungarian Relations, 1941–1944 (1972); Thomas Sakmyster, Hungary’s Admiral on Horseback: Miklós Horthy, 1918–1944 (1994); Thomas Spira, German-Hungarian Relations and the Swabian Problem: From Károlyi to Gömbös, 1919–1936 (1977); Gyula Juhász, Hungarian Foreign Policy, 1919–1945 (1979); Thomas Sakmyster, Hungary, the Great Powers, and the Danubian Crisis, 1936–1939 (1980); John F. Montgomery, Hungary: The Unwilling Satellite (1947, reprinted 1993); Gordon Brook-Shepherd, Uncrowned Emperor: The Life and Times of Otto von Habsburg (2003); and Randolph L. Braham, The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary, 2nd ed., 2 vol. (1994).
Communist Hungary and beyond
The period since World War II is treated in László Borhi, Hungary and the Cold War, 1945–1956 (2004); S.B. Várdy, T. Hunt Tooley, and A.H. Várdy (eds.), Ethnic Cleansing in 20th-Century Europe (2003); Charles Gati, Hungary and the Soviet Bloc (1986); S.B. Várdy and A.H. Várdy, Stalin’s Gulag: The Hungarian Experience (2007); Ivan T. Berend, Hungarian Economic Reforms 1953–1988 (1990); Béla K. Király, B. Lotze, and N.F. Dreisziger (eds.), The First War Between Socialist States: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and Its Impact (1984); Charles Gati, Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt (2006); Lee Congdon, Béla K. Király, and Károly Nagy (eds.), 1956: The Hungarian Revolution and War for Independence, trans. from Hungarian (2006); Roger Gough, A Good Comrade: János Kádár, Communism, and Hungary (2006); Géza Kilényi and Vanda Lamm (eds.), Democratic Changes in Hungary (1990); Béla K. Király and András Bozóki (eds.), Lawful Revolution in Hungary, 1989–94 (1995); and Rudolf L. Tökés, Hungary’s Negotiated Revolution (1996).