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Hungary in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: Preponderancy or Dependency?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2009

Péter Hanák
Péter Hanák
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Historical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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It is not an easy task for a historian to give an objective picture of the internal relations of the multinational empire. This is especially true with regard to Hungary's part and position in the monarchy. Was Hungary's status in the empire one of preponderancy or dependency? Did Hungary play a disintegrating role in the Dual Monarchy or was she the pillar of dualism? These are difficult questions to answer. Wherever he turns the historian finds articles and books dealing with the monarchy which are replete with arguments and counterarguments. The most common feature of studies thus far is that historians have approached these questions concerning Hungary's role with traditional sympathies or hostilities. Detailed objective accounts based on up-to-date methods for studies on Hungarian political, economic, and social development are missing.

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The Ruling Nationalities
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Austrian History Yearbook , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , January 1967 , pp. 260 - 302
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Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 1967

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34 Except for the fact that the output ratio is different for both Austria and Hungary in 1850 and 1870, the sources on which the figures in the table which follows are based are the same as for the preceding one.

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36 The above figures have been taken from the census statistics published in Tibor Kolossa, Az agrárnépesség társadalmi strukturájának történeti statisztikai vizsgálata az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchiában [A Historical Statistical Inquiry on the Social Structure of the Agrarian Population in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy] (manuscript).

37 The figures for Austria have been partly based on Waizner, Das Volkseinkommen Alt-Österreichs; those for Hungary, on Fellner, “Die Verteilung des Volksvermögens und Volkseinkommens.”

38 The territories which belonged to the new states after 1918. Czechoslovakia includes the Carpatho-Ukraine. The item “national income” does not include international payments and foreign trade balance.

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