Liberal Professions and Illiberal Politics : Hungary from the Habsburgs to the Holocaust.
In this important new historical study, Maria Kovacs examines the struggle between liberal and anti-Semitic policies among professional groups--doctors, lawyers, engineers--in Hungary. Kovacs's main emphasis is on the interwar period when unemployment, expansion of the welfare system, and compe...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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1994
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | In this important new historical study, Maria Kovacs examines the struggle between liberal and anti-Semitic policies among professional groups--doctors, lawyers, engineers--in Hungary. Kovacs's main emphasis is on the interwar period when unemployment, expansion of the welfare system, and competition for state jobs during the Great Depression, combined with crass anti-Semitism on the part of engineers and medical associations, radically altered previously liberal policies of open entry and equal educational opportunity. Liberal Professions and Illiberal Politics analyzes to what extent these n. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (193 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780195358865 0195358864 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
