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Go east! : a history of Hungarian Turanism /

For more than two centuries, Hungarians believed they shared an ethnic link with people of Japanese, Bulgarian, Estonian, Finnish and Turkic descent. Known as "Turanism," this ideology impacts Hungarian politics, science and cultural and ethnic identity even today. In "Go East!: A His...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ablonczy, Balázs (Author)
Other Authors: Lambert, Sean (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the Hungarian.
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2022].
Series:Studies in Hungarian history.
Subjects:
Pan-Turanianism.
Hungarians > Origin.
Hungarians > Ethnic identity.
Magyars > Origin.
Ural-Altaic peoples.
Hungary > Intellectual life.
Table of Contents:
  • A Batch of Bread
  • György Ilosvay Writes a Letter
  • The Moment
  • Silver Age
  • Székelys, Pagans, and Hunters
  • Everyday Life and Holidays in Turania
  • Dévény and Tokyo
  • Waiting for the Winds to Change
  • Renaissance and Mannerism.