The History of Hungarian Culture: From the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century by Kosa, Laszlo - 1999

Budapest: Corvina Books [963-13-4836-9] 1999. (Hardcover) 295pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, index. A previous owner's inscription on the front free endpaper. "The last Hungarian work on the history of Hungarian culture was published between 1939 and 1942. After the communist takeover in 1947-48, under the ideological autocracy of Marxism, cultural history as a discipline came under suspicion, and was therefore pushed into the background; even the university departments were abolished. It was not until the 1960s that cultural history started gradually to regain its status". Time Period 18th Century. Contributors include Ivan Bertenyi, Istvan Bitskey, Ostvan Bona, Istvan Fodor, Istvan Gyorgy Toth. Revised by Christopher Ryan. Translated by Tunde Vajda. Locale: Hungary. (History--Europe, Cultural History, History--Europe).