Empty signs, historical imaginaries : the entangled nationalization of names and naming in a late Habsburg borderland / Ágoston Berecz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berecz, Ágoston, author.

Series:

Austrian and Habsburg studies ; Volume 27.

Austrian and Habsburg studies ; Volume 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Names, Personal--Hungary.

Names, Personal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, [2020]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-964-1

1-78920-635-9

OCLC:

1147796940