An Undivided Europe?
An Undivided Europe?

Summary/Abstract: If the Western world wants to bridge the gulf that separates it from Central and Eastern Europe, it will have to know more of these regions’ history, a subject of which the average British and American student is blissfully ignorant. Theodore Roosevelt’s observation, penned by way of introducing a book on a critical episode of Hungarian history in 1913— the last year this century that anyone could think of peace as being the natural condition of Europe—is as relevant today as it was over eighty years ago. Indeed, the more talk there is of European unity, the more imperative it seems for people to be made aware of how far Hungarian history has always been an organic part of the story of Europe, and conversely, how consistently Europe has shaped Hungary over the centuries. “Europe” has never stood for just another continent; but whatever its connotation throughout the ages, Europe always defined itself as including the central and eastern parts of the expanse stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals, in sum, as including Hungary.

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