Race and National Character in Modern Hungary, 1880s-1940s
Dec 2026 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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336
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Race and National Character in Modern Hungary, 1880s-1940s examines various debates on national belonging, their ideological frameworks and methodological subtleties. During this period, modern Hungary went through profound territorial, social and national transformations, and experienced a wide range of political systems: from imperial to democratic, communist, authoritarian, antisemitic and fascist. This book also demonstrates how, under these circumstances, the idea of race became part of a larger national agenda, serving as a vehicle for transmitting a social and cultural message about Hungarian national character that transcended political differences and opposing ideological camps.
This book is of immense value both to historians of modern Hungary and to anyone looking at the history of anthropology, race, nationalism and eugenics in Europe and the wider world.
This book is of immense value both to historians of modern Hungary and to anyone looking at the history of anthropology, race, nationalism and eugenics in Europe and the wider world.
Race and National Character in Modern Hungary, 1880s-1940s examines various debates on national belonging, their ideological frameworks and methodological subtleties. During this period, modern Hungary went through profound territorial, social and national transformations, and experienced a wide ...
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Marius Turda is Professor in Central and Eastern European Biomedicine at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of In Seach of the Perfect Romanian: National Specificity, Racial Degeneration, and Social Selection in Modern Romania (2026); Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary (2014); Modernism and Eugenics (2010), and the editor of The History of Eugenics in East-Central Europe, 1900-1945: Sources and Commentaries (2015) and Religion, Evolution and Heredity (2018).
Marius Turda is Professor in Central and Eastern European Biomedicine at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of In Seach of the Perfect Romanian: National Specificity, Racial Degeneration, and Social Selection in Modern Romania (2026); Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary...
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