Párhuzamok és kapcsolódási pontok a spanyol és a magyar politikai emigráció történetében 1849–1873 [Parallels and connections in the histories of Spanish and Hungarian political emigration 1849–1873]. By Viktória Semsey. Budapest: Line Design, 2023. 194 pp.

Balogh, Ádám Tibor (2024) Párhuzamok és kapcsolódási pontok a spanyol és a magyar politikai emigráció történetében 1849–1873 [Parallels and connections in the histories of Spanish and Hungarian political emigration 1849–1873]. By Viktória Semsey. Budapest: Line Design, 2023. 194 pp. HUNGARIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW: NEW SERIES OF ACTA HISTORICA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARIUM HUNGARICAE, 13 (2). pp. 326-329. ISSN 2063-8647

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Abstract

The monograph Parallels and Connections in the Histories of Spanish and Hungarian Political Emigration, 1849–1873 examines the history of ideas and politics in the two countries through the relations between their political refugees. The present book builds on decades of research. It reveals which Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Hungarian politicians came into contact with one another during their emigration from 1849 to 1873 and which political writings, parliamentary speeches, and articles bear witness to their direct and indirect interactions. Although the title of the work focuses mainly on the Spanish and Hungarian aspects, Semsey could have used the adjective “Portuguese” as well, since there are more than one hundred references to Portuguese-Hungarian and Portuguese-Spanish connections in the text. Indeed, this omission seems even more unfortunate when we see that the idea of an Iberian Union linking Spain and Portugal is a subject that does not allow Portugal to be ignored. On this basis, the book under discussion here is more than the title suggests, and may well be of interest to Spanish and Hungarian scholars, but it may well also constitute a significant contribution to the larger international scholarship.

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