<p>Tapping the CC group mind, does anyone have a rec for a good book either on Hungary under the Hapsburgs or with substantial sections on same?</p>
<p>Good recs for works on 20th-century Hungary would be appreciated as well.</p>
<p>TheDad: you don’t need a book; just ask any Hungarian to tell you how those blankety-blank Austrians ruined their wonderful country. Then just sit back and take notes (LOL)</p>
<p>Vol. 10 of the Durants’ *The Story of Civilization<a href=“%22Rousseau%20and%20Revolution%22”>/i</a> devotes about 40 small-print pages to Austria-Hungary in the latter half of the 18th c.</p>
<p>TD, I’d recommend checking the references on questia.com. Use the search features for Hungary and Habsburg/Hapsburg. There are many books on this subject and you may want to check the TOC/contents before spending good money.</p>
<p>DoS: funny. Very funny.</p>
<p>Driver: not a bad alternative, I’m looking for something a little more extensive. What bugs the !@#$%! out of me is that I read a book that fits the profile of what I’m looking for and damned if I can recall its name. I may have even owned it but it is not peeking out from any of the bookshelves.</p>
<p>Xiggi: thanks for the suggestion. Questia is not a site I’d been familiar with. We’re moving towards having sites of sites, indexes of indexes.</p>
<p>I’m assuming you’ve gone to amazon and entered “hapsburg hungary”? If not, I just did and they have a bunch of titles that might ring a bell.</p>
<p>Driver, I hadn’t done that but may. My experience with group minds like Cc is that it’s not that uncommon for someone to have some expertise, formal or informal, in whatever narrow subject is of interest and can thus give some informed opinion beyond a list. It’s not for me, actually, and I’ll say more anon. Though Hungary and the Hapsburgs always interested me. The fortune cookie that says “Beware of a man named Esterhazy” is pregnant with meaning.</p>
<p>This was recommended in the Hungary section of the internet Frommer’s Guide: The Habsburg Monarchy, 1809-1918 (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1948), by A. J. P. Taylor, is a lively and readable analysis of the final century of the Austro-Hungarian empire.</p>
<p>Thank you, SA. (What are you searching for, btw? Oak and ash? Myrtle?) I’d run across that in a citation elsewhere and was already inclined to seek it out. I’ve read other books by Taylor and he’s a fine writer. I think that might be the ticket.</p>
<p>I’m searching FOR, not WITHIN. If I knew exactly for what, I wouldn’t have called it Avalon. :-)</p>