Empty signs, historical imaginaries : the entangled nationalization of names and naming in a late Habsburg borderland
Ágoston Berecz
Bok · Engelsk · 2020
| Omfang | ix, 335 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Utgave | First edition
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| Opplysninger | Introduction -- Part I. Peasants: 1. Under Ancestral Masks: Name-Giving Nationalized -- 2. Family Names on the Ground -- 3. Place Names and Etymologies from Below -- Part II. Nationalisms: 4. Contact-influenced Family Names in Discourse and Practice -- 5. Dimensions of Family-Name Magyarization -- 6. Signposts over the Land -- Part III. The State: 7. Floreas into Virágs: Stage Regulation of First Names -- 8. The Most Correct Ways to Spell One's Name -- 9. The Great Toponymic Manoeuvre -- Conclusions -- Appendix A -- Appendix B. Place-Name Index -- Bibliography -- Index.. - "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, Ágoston 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"--
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| ISBN | 9781789206340
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