The Studies in the history of ideas in this book deal with select political ideologies in Britain, Hungary and Finland.

CONTENTS

Introduction
Note on translation

PART I: BRITISH IDEAS
The Dark side of the European:
the 'Negro' of the British Anthropology in the 1860s

Anti-racism:
Four Examples from the British Debate

Weird 'Race' of the North:
Exploring British Stereotypes of the Finn c. 1850-1918

Liberalism and Legality:
James Fitzjames Stephen's Criticism of Democracy

Hitting Socialism with Logic, Statistics and Human Understanding:
W. H. Mallock's Conservatism

PART II: FINNISH IDEOLOGIES
Konrad Reijo Waara and the Idea of Degeneration:
A Chapter in the history of Hygiene in Finland, 1880-1918

From Rascals to Knights:
Verneri Louhivuori's Scout Ideology and the Birth of the Finnish Scout movement, 1910-1924

Sports as Panacea:
Hygiene and the Rise of Sports Movement in Finland, 1880-1920

PART III: HUNGARIAN SITUATIONS
Ferenc Molnár and the Culture of Adolescence

Identity in Difference:
Antti Jalava's Hungary of 1875 Revisited

Hungarian Illusions and Realpolitik:
The 1956 Uprising Reported by the Finnish chargés d'affaires in Budapest

'Let Us Resurrect!'
- Identity-building of the Hungarian Minority in Romanian Banat

The Heroes and Villains of Finnish History for the Hungarians:
István Dolmányos's Finnorzság Története (1972) - An Example of Ideological History


Index of Names