Download or read book American Effects on Hungarian Imagination and Political Thought, 1559-1848 written by Géza Závodszky and published by East European Monographs. This book was released on 1995 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the impact of colonial North America and the pre-world- power US on events in Hungary over 300 years, but especially during the first half of the 19th century when a bourgeois society was emerging. Shows how Hungarians took inspiration from the conquest of the American wilderness as they battled the Ottoman Empire in the 16th and 17th centuries, from the settlement of the Great Plains as they repopulated the desolate Great Hungarian Plain in the 18th century, from the US War of Independence as they were swallowed by the Austrian empire, and from the modernization of the 19th century as they tried to create similar social and political structures. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR