Distance Revisited. Chapters from British/US-Hungarian Relations
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2025
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Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
Éditions L'Harmattan
Éditions L'Harmattan
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Beretzky Ágnes (szerk.): Distance Revisited. Chapters from British/US-Hungarian Relations. Budapest - Paris, Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem - Éditions L'Harmattan, 2025. 209 p.
Abstract
The volume enumerates remarkable characters who actively worked to lessen the distance between Hungary and Britain/USA in the 19-20th centuries: the reader meets the political persistence of Ferenc Pulszky and James Bryce, the humanitarian spirit of Florence Nightingale alongside Zsuzsanna Kossuth, together with Arthur J. Patterson’s rare responsiveness to Hungarian culture, as well as the diplomatic sensitivity of Owen O’Malley, and finally, the unique philanthropic role played by the US millionaire Gladys Vanderbilt. Certainly, they operated in a world defined by geopolitical realities which the present volume also addresses, i. e. the early 20th-century British-German rivalry, as well as the unbalanced nature of interwar US-Hungarian diplomatic relations.
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Chapters from British–Hungarian Relations Ákos Diglics: Beyond Diplomacy: Ferenc Pulszky’s London “Mission” (1849–1851)
Adrienn Gulyás: The Question of 19th-Century Camp Nursing in the Light of the Nursing Management Activities of Zsuzsanna Kossuth and Florence Nightingale
Renáta Tóth: A “Noble Philhungar”: The Portrayal of Arthur J. Patterson and The Magyars in Hungarian Newspapers from 1862 to 1870
Míra Perger: James Bryce and Hungarian–British Diplomacy: From Early Admiration to Strong Parliamentary Support in the Era of Trianon
Ágnes Beretzky: Eyre Crowe in the Foreign Office (1906–1925)
Boglárka Dobos: An Irishman in Wartime Hungary: Sir Owen O’Malley’s Diplomatic Service in Budapest (1939‒1941)
Chapters from US–Hungarian History
Zoltán Peterecz: US–Hungarian Diplomacy in the Horthy Era: American Ministers in Hungary during the Interwar Years
Bella Beretzky: Forgotten Legacy: The Life and Philanthropy of Gladys Vanderbilt Széchényi in Hungary
Keywords
peacemaking ; diplomacy ; culture ; nursing ; philantrophy