INTRODUCTION 9
PART ONE：FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CHRISTIAN KINGDOM 13
1 From the Beginnings to the Conquest 15
2 The Era of ＇Adventures＇ 23
3 The Age of Reason 29
PART TWO：THE MEDIEVAL KINGDOM THE DYNASTY OF THE ARPADS 33
4 The Establishment of a Christian Kingdom 35
5 Internal Strife 41
6 Consolidation 48
7 The Rise of the Barons 57
8 Béla IV and the Mongol Invasion 65
9 The End of the Arpáds 79
PART THREE：THE ZENITH OF HUNGARIAN POWER THE ELECTED KINGS 85
10 The Anjou Kings 87
11 Sigismund of Luxemburg 99
12 John Hunyadi 109
13 Matthias Hunyadi Corvinus 121
14 Social Upheaval－National Disaster 134
PART FOUR：THE DIVIDED KINGDOM 149
15 The Country Torn Asunder 151
16 Internal Conditions 161
17 Three-Cornered Fight 169
18 Reformation．Literature 184
19 The Golden Age of Transylvania 188
20 Liberation 198
21 The Balance Sheet of the Turkish Occupation 209
22 Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire 213
23 The Rákóczi Rebellion 218
PART FIVE：UNDER HABSBURG RULE 229
24 Stabilization：Charles Ⅲ，Maria Theresa 231
25 Enlightened Despotism 242
26 National Revival 246
27 The Era of Reforms 252
28 The Sway of Extremists 259
29 The War of Independence，1848-9 264
30 Absolutism 269
31 Compromise and Uneasy Partnership 274
32 The First World War and the Revolution 281
PART SIX：AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR 287
33 The Horthy Era 289
A SELECT LIST OF DATES 298
INDEX 302