A compelling historical and ethnographic study of the German speakers in Hungary, from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. John C. Swanson's work looks deeply into the enduring sense of tangible belonging that characterized Germanness from the perspective of rural dwellers, as well as the broader phenomenon of "minority making" in twentieth-century Europe.

John C. Swanson is professor and department head of history at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is the author of The Remnants of the Habsburg Monarchy: The Shaping of Modern Austria and Hungary, 1918?1922.