“Let These be our Colonies: Dalmatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina!” Rezső Havass and the Outlook of Hungarian Imperialism at the Turn of the Century

Hungarian imperial thought after the fall of Habsburg Monarchy became a fantasy past times, and thus propaganda Rezső Havass was long irrelevant by time his death in 1927. In spite this, called “wholehearted devotee imperialism” obituary, man who believed further expansion with faith prophets whose goal to resurrect imperium Louis I Hungary. The present study analyzes career trajectory multiple overlapping identities order uncover different faces imperialism before Great War. “bourgeois citizen,” “Hungarian fanatic,” “a scholar,” “clerk chairman business companies,” or other words, he had an array which made him capable using historic, legal, political, economic arguments aid advancement imperialism. For Havass, Kingdom undoubtedly would-be-colonial empire well-defined political goals (the colonization Dalmatia), texts mixed vulgarized elements sciences subordinated goals. instance, it is relevant that facilitating factor for geographical scholarship case besides obvious leanings. My main research question concerns modalities Hungary through Havass. What did consist of? How compare notions expansionism? And how widespread public sphere Hungary?