Laczó Ferenc - Varga Bálint - Hungary globális history

How did Hungarian women activists participate in the suffragette movement, and how did Pál Teleki influence the Iraqi-Turkish border conflict? How did Islam become an established religion in Hungary, and when was the country's first yoga school founded? What connects Miklós Horthy with Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Chile's economic reforms with the Bokros package? Who were the Hungarian Maoists and how could Coca-Cola be made in socialist Hungary? For what reason did Che Guevara visit Budapest, and how did the Cuban-born Carlos Pérez become the top scorer of the Hungarian Handball World Cup? Why did the Japanese Suzuki set up a car factory in Esztergom, and what caused the Hungarian environmentalists to organize themselves into a movement? The book is a large-scale attempt to rethink Hungary's past century and a half. Its authors - historians, writers, ethnographers, economists, political scientists and sociologists - start from the cross-border relations and global embeddedness of the country and its inhabitants. Stories of decisive importance, but still less well-known or insufficiently aware of, are analyzed on a scientific level, but at the same time in an understandable style. Merit shows the ways in which the country has been a somewhat peculiar, yet very integral part of global history over the past century and a half.