Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries
Subtitle: The Entangled Nationalization of Names and Naming in a Late Habsburg Borderland
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781789206340
Subjects: Genealogy
Description: "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, Ágoston 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"--