Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries : : The Entangled Nationalization of Names and Naming in a Late Habsburg Borderland /

Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries : : The Entangled Nationalization of Names and Naming in a Late Habsburg Borderland / / Ágoston Berecz.

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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, Ber...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Berecz, Ágoston,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Austrian and Habsburg Studies ; 27
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Physical Description:1 online resource (350 p.)
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Table of 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

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