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978-0-7618-6563-6 • Hardback • August 2015 • $97.00 • (£75.00)
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Valerie Miké, a native of Budapest, Hungary, has a doctorate in mathematics and is a professor at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, with a special interest in ethical issues pertaining to uncertainty in biomedical science and technology. Hungarian historians of the older generation who had personal knowledge of events urged her to undertake a biography of her father, lest all be lost for posterity. Important help was provided by her brother John Jr., an MIT-trained physicist with a wide range of interests including history and political theory.
Foreword by Attila Miklósházy, SJ.
Acknowledgments
Hungary: A Brief History
Introduction
Prologue
PART I: HUNGARY (1905–1945)
1 Family Life
2 The Hungarian Kolping Movement
Appendix to Chapter 2
3 Reconstruction: The Early Years (1923–1931)
Appendix to Chapter 3
4 Flowering: The Later Years (1931–1944)
Appendix to Chapter 4
5 Toward a Brighter Future: The Goal Is in Sight
Appendix to Chapter 5
PART II: GERMANY (1945–1949)
6 Refugees in a Foreign Land
7 Building Community
Appendix to Chapter 7
8 An Uncertain Future
Appendix to Chapter 8
PART III: PREVIEW OF VOLUME 2
Volume 2: USA (1949–1981)
Commentary: The Statesman by John Miké, Jr.
Small Business and Capitalism in Europe and the United States
(Text of Study)
Epilogue
List of Chapter Appendices
Bibliography
Notes on Translation and Terminology
Index
Picture Credits
Valerie Miké’s work touched the Hungarian historian community with the force of something that was new—in terms of its details, as well as its profound significance. This was also the reaction of audiences on the author’s 10-city book tour introducing the Hungarian edition. An English-language edition was clearly needed for international dissemination. The importance of this first volume, which presents the Kolping movement in Hungary, cannot be overestimated for the history of the Catholic Church during this critical period in the 20th century, where lack of information and unfounded charges tend to prevail.
— Asztrik Várszegi, OSB, archabbot-bishop of Pannonhalma, publisher of the Hungarian edition
Worker movement and Christianity—seemingly contradictory concepts. Why? Because only leftwing initiatives were analyzed and kept in public consciousness by historians under the dictatorship of state socialism. Yet the Christian worker movement also has a tradition in our country that is not negligible, and a significant part of it was created by the activities of János Mike (1905–1981).
— Péter Miklós, historian, from a review of the Hungarian edition