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

"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 historie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berecz, Ágoston (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn, 2020.
Colección:Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 27.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.