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AliceFreifeld.Nationalism and the Crowdin Liberal Hungary,1848-1914. Washington DC: The Woodrow Wilson Press; Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xii, 398 pp. $45.00.

AliceFreifeld.Nationalism and the Crowdin Liberal Hungary,1848-1914. Washington DC: The Woodrow... Alice Freifeld. Nationalism a n d the Crowd in Liberal Hungary, 1848-1914. Washington DC: The W o o d r o w Wilson Press; Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins Uni- versity Press, 2000. xii, 398 pp. $45.00. "This study follows the history of the 1848 crowd from defeat and forced quiescence to revival and institutionalization," writes Alice Freifeld in the beginning o f her book (p. 2). Actually, she provides more than promised. Her study starts with an overview of the crowd's role in m o d e m European history as seen by such prominent historians as Eric Hobsbawm, George Rude, E. P. Thompson, Georges Lefevre, Albert Sobul and Richard Cobb. Next she deals with the meaning and function of liberalism and nationalism in the nineteenth-century historical context. After establishing a general framework, her study follows the evolution o f Magyar nationalism and the ever-increasing importance o f crowd participation in public life from the Hungarian Vormarz, through the events o f the 1848 revolution and defeat and passive resistance between 1849 and 1867. She appropriately assigns great importance to crowd participation in the political and cultural life of the na- tion in both the revolutionary http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

AliceFreifeld.Nationalism and the Crowdin Liberal Hungary,1848-1914. Washington DC: The Woodrow Wilson Press; Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xii, 398 pp. $45.00.

Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 37 (1-2): 243 – Jan 1, 2003

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© 2003 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Alice Freifeld. Nationalism a n d the Crowd in Liberal Hungary, 1848-1914. Washington DC: The W o o d r o w Wilson Press; Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins Uni- versity Press, 2000. xii, 398 pp. $45.00. "This study follows the history of the 1848 crowd from defeat and forced quiescence to revival and institutionalization," writes Alice Freifeld in the beginning o f her book (p. 2). Actually, she provides more than promised. Her study starts with an overview of the crowd's role in m o d e m European history as seen by such prominent historians as Eric Hobsbawm, George Rude, E. P. Thompson, Georges Lefevre, Albert Sobul and Richard Cobb. Next she deals with the meaning and function of liberalism and nationalism in the nineteenth-century historical context. After establishing a general framework, her study follows the evolution o f Magyar nationalism and the ever-increasing importance o f crowd participation in public life from the Hungarian Vormarz, through the events o f the 1848 revolution and defeat and passive resistance between 1849 and 1867. She appropriately assigns great importance to crowd participation in the political and cultural life of the na- tion in both the revolutionary

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