The Hungarian Revolution of 1848 in the Context of European History [antikvár]

Domokos Kosáry, Ordinary Member and former President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, President of Széchenyi István Art Academy. Born in 1913. M.A. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Ph.D. Sorbonne, Paris. 1938-39 Institute of Historical Research, London. 1937-50 Professor of History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest; Director of the Institute of History (Teleki Institute). 1946-49 Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the French-language Revue d'Histoire Comparée, published in Budapest. 1949 divested of all his offices under the Stalinist regime. Autumn 1956, President of the Revolutionary Council of Historians. Sentenced to four years in prison, to be released in 1960. Employed as an archivist, later appointed scientific researcher then academic counsellor at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 1982 elected Corresponding Member, and in 1985 Ordinary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 1985-90 President of the National Committee of Hungarian Historians. 1990-96 President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences after the change of regime. Recent Publications: Les 'petits états' face aux changements culturels, politiques et économiques de 1750 á 1914. Lausanne: Université de Lausanne, 1985. The Press during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848-49. Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1986. Cultur and Society in Eighteenth Century Hungary. Budapest: Corvina, 1987. A történelem veszedelmei: írások Európáról és Magyarországról (The perils of history: Writings on Europe and Hungary). Budapest: Magvető, 1987. Hat év a tudománypolitika szolgálatában (Six years in the service of science policy), Budapest: MTA Történettudományi Intézet, 1996. A chilloni fogoly olvasónapló, 1958 (The prisoner of CHillon). Budapest: Magyar írószövetség, Belvárosi Könyvkiadó, 1997. Magyarország és a nemzetközi politika 1848-1849-ben (Hungary and international politics in 1848-49). Budapest: História Könyvtár Monográfiák, 2000.