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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berecz, Ágoston (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn, 2020.
Series:Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 27.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.