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.
Inhoudsopgave
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
Over de auteur
Ágoston Berecz is Research Fellow at Pasts, Inc., Center for Historical Studies, Budapest.
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