Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries
The Entangled Nationalization of Names and Naming in a Late Habsburg Borderland
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Word Count
83,750 words, Guess
Page Count
335 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL36255709M
- ISBN-139781789206340
- OCLC Control Number1135914176
- Library of Congress Control Number2019048164
Classifications
- LCCCS2910 .B47 2020
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"--
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