INTRODUCTION

PART ONE：FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CHRISTIAN KINGDOM

1 From the Beginnings to the Conquest

2 The Era of ＇Adventures＇

3 The Age of Reason

PART TWO：THE MEDIEVAL KINGDOM THE DYNASTY OF THE ARPADS

4 The Establishment of a Christian Kingdom

5 Internal Strife

6 Consolidation

7 The Rise of the Barons

8 Béla IV and the Mongol Invasion

9 The End of the Arpáds

PART THREE：THE ZENITH OF HUNGARIAN POWER THE ELECTED KINGS

10 The Anjou Kings

11 Sigismund of Luxemburg

12 John Hunyadi

13 Matthias Hunyadi Corvinus

14 Social Upheaval－National Disaster

PART FOUR：THE DIVIDED KINGDOM

15 The Country Torn Asunder

16 Internal Conditions

17 Three-Cornered Fight

18 Reformation．Literature

19 The Golden Age of Transylvania

20 Liberation

21 The Balance Sheet of the Turkish Occupation

22 Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire

23 The Rákóczi Rebellion

PART FIVE：UNDER HABSBURG RULE

24 Stabilization：Charles Ⅲ，Maria Theresa

25 Enlightened Despotism

26 National Revival

27 The Era of Reforms

28 The Sway of Extremists

29 The War of Independence，1848-9

30 Absolutism

31 Compromise and Uneasy Partnership

32 The First World War and the Revolution

PART SIX：AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR

33 The Horthy Era

A SELECT LIST OF DATES

INDEX