List of illustrations Preface Part One Towards a civil society l The Making of Modem Hungary 2 Industrial Development in the Eyes of Opposition Reformers of the l840s 3 The Emergence of Bourgeois Thought: Arguments in Favour of the Polish Uprising at the Hungarian Diet of 1832-6 4 Count Széchenyi and the Conflicts of Modemity 5 Liberalism, 1830-67: Reformer Roles and Social Awareness 6 Politics and National Minorities, 1848-9 Part Two The emergence of civil society at the crossroads of liberalism and conservatism 7 Mamelukes and Zoltans: Elected Representatives under the Dual Monarchy 8 The Two Houses of Parliament: History of a Changing Atmosphere 9 Liberalism, Conservatism and Political Legitimacy under the Dual Monarchy 10 Liberals, Anti-Semites and Jews at the Birth of Modem Hungary Part Three National consciousness and the making of cults 11 The Millennium Monument 12 A Hungarian Cult: Queen Elisabeth of Bavaria 13 March the Fifteenth Biographical index