CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. The Frameworks
7. Chapter 1. Th e Dualism of King and Estates 11
8. Chapter 2. Th e Workings of the Machinery of the Diet 29
9. Part II. Th e Structures of Politics
10. Chapter 3. Th e Dualism of King and Estates Dominated by Confessional Questions 79
11. Chapter 4. Taxes and Privileges 92
12. Chapter 5. Government and Opposition at the Diet 116
13. Chapter 6. Career Paths at the Diet 145
14. Chapter 7. Realignments on the Estates’ Side of the Political Arena 177
15. Part III. Interpreting Hungarian Politics in the Eighteenth Century
16. Chapter 8. Texts and Discourse 207
17. Chapter 9. County and Gentry 275
18. Chapter 10. Historiographical Traditions and European Comparisons 300
19. Bibliography 312
20. Index 343