Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries

The Entangled Nationalization of Names and Naming in a Late Habsburg Borderland
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-634-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Austrian and Habsburg Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berecz, Ágoston

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Text

Introduction

Part I: Peasants

Chapter 1. Under Ancestral Masks: Name-Giving Nationalized

Chapter 2. Family Names on the Ground

Chapter 3. Place Names and Etymologies from Below

Part II: Nationalisms

Chapter 4. Faces of the Self-Other: Contact-Influenced Family Names in Discourse and Practice

Chapter 5. Dimensions of Family-Name Magyarization

Chapter 6. Signposts over the Land

Part III: The State

Chapter 7. Floreas into Virágs: Stage Regulation of First Names

Chapter 8. The Most Correct Ways to Spell One’s Name

Chapter 9. The Great Toponymic Manoeuvre

Conclusions

Appendix A: Tables

Appendix B: Place-Name Index

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Berecz, Ágoston
Ágoston Berecz is Research Fellow at Pasts, Inc., Center for Historical Studies, Budapest.

Ágoston Berecz is Research Fellow at Pasts, Inc., Center for Historical Studies, Budapest.