The Once and Future Budapest

by Robert Nemes

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 buda--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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875803377
• ISBN13: 9780875803371
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher