In the current case study, I examine a key feature of the political thinking of István Gorove (1818–1881), one of the well-known and respected politicians and political thinkers of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.Aspects of the common good in Gorove’s political thought cover a broad scope of social phenomena, among which the current study will focus on the analysis of the British society and political culture together with its implications on the common good of Gorove’s own Hungarian political community, based on Gorove’s two-volume book Nyugot: Utazás külföldön [West: A Journey Abroad].
The National Council of the Hungarian Ethnic Minority (HNC) in Serbia is an autonomous institution of the autochthonous Hungarian national minority of Serbia.The already existing HNC became legal in the 2000s, when the democratization of Serbia took place.Since then, it has become a success story for both the community and Serbia due to the devotion of the Hungarian minority.In this article, we review the relevant legal background and the role the institution has been playing in the everyday life of the Hungarian community.In doing so, with attention to the limited nature of available literature, we also rely on the findings of an interview, realized recently with the leaders of the HNC, for a better presentation of the significance of this umbrella organization of the Hungarian cultural autonomy in Serbia.
In my study, I will present the advertisements related to soda water in Hungary during the period in question from the perspective of press, media, and cultural history.In the 1930s and 1940s, just as today, the aim of the advertisements was to highlight the special characteristics of the product and to draw attention to it. In my work, I seek to find out what media techniques the profession used to promote its products during this period of soda water production and how it used the various advertising tools to attract customers.In addition to periodicals, I will focus on the forms and content of communication that convey the status of soda water in new ways.Thus, I will place particular emphasis on the advertisements for the textbook of the first industrial soda water course, as well as on small print, caricatures, theatre and cinematographic works, and mapping their social, cultural, economic, and ideological background.
The article focuses on the dual meaning of the “garden as a workshop”, a concept developed by Bulgarian immigrant gardeners to Hungary in the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.The “garden” was not only a terrain for modernization but also a passkey of integration for Bulgarian immigrants in the host society.On the basis of diverse materials about the migration of Bulgarian gardeners to Hungarian lands, the article outlines the importance of factors, such as liberalization policies in the Habsburg Empire, land availability, water resources, and city markets, as having influenced the arrival and settlement of gardeners in the second half of the 19th century.All these factors are interpreted in the text from the perspective of their role in modernization processes, outlining thus the garden as a space that responded to the new rhythms and demands of modernity, by introducing new technologies for land cultivation, optimizing production, and linking it directly with the urban centres, making thus horticulture a substantial part of the modernizing trends.Highlighting the role Bulgarian gardeners had in this process at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the author argues that the innovative approach to vegetable growing and to agriculture in general shows an alternative pattern of modernization (different from those in the spheres of political systems, culture, and industry) – one that developed in the domain of agriculture.Whilst, on the one hand, this alternative path permitted the modernizing of this work activity and its optimization in line with the new social demands, it also allowed for the integration of Bulgarian gardeners’ community in Bulgaria, laying the grounds for their long-term presence and interaction with Hungarian society.
