ISBN:
9781789206340
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 335 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Austrian and Habsburg studies volume 27
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Berecz, Ágoston Empty signs, historical imaginaries
DDC:
306.0949609034
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Personenname
;
Namengebung
;
Politik
;
Nationalismus
;
Nationalitätenpolitik
;
Minderheit
;
Ungarn
;
Rumänien
;
Österreich-Ungarn
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
"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"--
Note:
First published in 2020 by Berghahn Books
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
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