TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berecz,Ágoston
TI  - Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries: The Entangled Nationalization of Names and Naming in a Late Habsburg Borderland 
T2  - Austrian and Habsburg Studies
SN  - 9781789206340
AV  - CS2910 .B47 2020
U1  - 929.4/209439 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Names, Geographical
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Hungary
KW  - Names, Hungarian
KW  - Names, Personal
KW  - Names, Romanian
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History: 18th/19th Century
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Notes on Text --; Introduction --; Part I. Peasants --; 1. Under Ancestral Masks --; 2. Family Names on the Ground --; 3. Place Names and Etymologies from Below --; Part II. Nationalisms --; 4. Faces of the Self-Other --; 5. Dimensions of Family-Name Magyarization --; 6. Signposts over the Land --; Part III. The State --; 7. Floreas into Virágs --; 8. The Most Correct Ways to Spell One’s Name --; 9. The Grand Toponymic Manoeuvre --; Conclusions --; Appendix A. Tables --; Appendix B. Place-Name Index --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Set in a multiethnic region of the nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, this thoroughly interdisciplinary study maps out how the competing Romanian, Hungarian and German nationalization projects dealt with proper names. With particular attention to their function as symbols of national histories, Berecz makes a case for names as ideal guides for understanding historical imaginaries and how they operate socially. In tracing the changing fortunes of nationalization movements and the ways in which their efforts were received by mass constituencies, he provides an innovative and compelling account of the historical utilization, manipulation, and contestation of names
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789206357?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789206357
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789206357/original
ER  -