Focusing on the relationship between Hungarians and their non-Hungarian neighbours in the Carpathian Basin, this text discusses the establishment of self-government in 1867, the effects of the Industrial Revolution and the subsequent rapid socioeconomic and intellectual development of the country.
Ferenc Glatz is director of the Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Attila Pok is Executive Secretary for Research and Administration, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
