Through meticulous scholarship and unsettling clarity, Marius Turda's book unveils the profound influence of racial thinking on Hungary's modern history. It is a bold intervention that confronts the historiographical silences surrounding race in Hungary and demands a new, more honest scholarly vocabulary. The book also challenges the myths that have long sanitized the country's relationship to race.

Zoltán Tibori-Szabó, Director of the Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

This essential monograph draws on plenty of little known primary sources to offer an unmatched study of race and national character in modern Hungary. The centering and critical reinterpretation of questions of race is long overdue and accomplished here in an impressive scholarly manner.

Ferenc Laczó, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Marius Turda's newest volume on the history of race and national character in modern Hungary moves the historian beyond the established methodological practices such as observation, synthesis, analysis, and comparison. Instead, it proposes a different approach: examining the present through the lens of history. The volume demonstrates how scientific discourses are intertwined with biopolitical initiatives and large-scale national projects, thereby influencing practices of inclusion, ethnocentric exclusion, and broader social hierarchies.

Zsuzsa Bokor, The Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj- Napoca, Romania