@{MTMT:35565202, title = {"She Sang Her Child to Sleep in Wallachian". Imagining and Living Romanian-Magyar Intermarriage in Late Habsburg Hungary}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/35565202}, author = {Berecz, Ágoston}, booktitle = {Gender and Nation in East Central Europe}, unique-id = {35565202}, year = {2025}, pages = {29-58}, orcid-numbers = {Berecz, Ágoston/0000-0002-7453-481X} } @article{MTMT:36052164, title = {Artists and Generals: The Representation of Colonial and National Rule through Street Naming}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36052164}, author = {Berecz, Ágoston}, doi = {10.1177/08883254251324212}, journal-iso = {EAST EUR POLIT SOC}, journal = {EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES}, unique-id = {36052164}, issn = {0888-3254}, abstract = {The history of multinational East-Central Europe is increasingly viewed through a colonial lens. This article contributes to the ongoing discourse about the applicability of colonial frameworks by looking at the cultural connotations embedded in urban street names by dominant elites. Between the 1860s and 1914, street naming emerged as a tool for demarcating territories, asserting authority, and popularizing historical narratives. Drawing on a database of 168 towns and cities, this study reveals distinct divergences in official street naming practices between multinational regions of the Austro-Hungarian, German, and Romanov Empires, and overseas exploitation colonies of the British, French, Portuguese, Dutch, German, and Spanish empires. In the latter, street names often accentuated ethnic and racial distinctions, but in the former, they tended to mitigate such differences. Colonial street names frequently evoked the exotic imagery of their surroundings, predominantly focusing on the European conquest in their time map. Unlike the prevalent trend of bestowing high cultural namesakes in Europe, colonial nomenclature also leaned toward military and bureaucratic references. Moreover, colonial streets frequently referenced the metropolitan geography, whereas inhabitants of national peripheries seemed less inclined to tether their identities to the center. Finally, colonial cities typically underwent more extensive renaming in a commemorative vein, contrasting with the more stable street names in East-Central Europe. In this context, distinctive colonial traits are identified in the street naming practices of Russian-ruled Poland.}, year = {2025}, eissn = {1533-8371}, orcid-numbers = {Berecz, Ágoston/0000-0002-7453-481X} } @article{MTMT:36334335, title = {Frédéric Giraut – Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch coord., The Politics of Place Naming. Naming the World. [A helynévadás politikája. A világ elnevezése]}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36334335}, author = {Berecz, Ágoston}, journal-iso = {NÉVTANI ÉRTESÍTŐ}, journal = {NÉVTANI ÉRTESÍTŐ}, volume = {47}, unique-id = {36334335}, issn = {0139-2190}, year = {2025}, eissn = {2064-7484}, pages = {264-269}, orcid-numbers = {Berecz, Ágoston/0000-0002-7453-481X} } @inbook{MTMT:36345054, title = {Kisebbségi nyelvek az erdélyi és kelet-délkelet-magyarországi vármegyékben a dualizmus alatt}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36345054}, author = {Berecz, Ágoston}, booktitle = {A vármegye mint politikai tér és politikai képzet}, unique-id = {36345054}, year = {2025}, pages = {248-267}, orcid-numbers = {Berecz, Ágoston/0000-0002-7453-481X} } @inbook{MTMT:36423211, title = {Treasonous Stripes. Embracing and Banning the Romanian Colors in Dualist Hungary}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36423211}, author = {Berecz, Ágoston}, booktitle = {Nationalism From Below in the East European and Soviet Borderlands}, unique-id = {36423211}, year = {2025}, pages = {151-170}, orcid-numbers = {Berecz, Ágoston/0000-0002-7453-481X} } @article{MTMT:36855397, title = {The Last Peasant War: Violence and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe. By Jakub S. Beneš.: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025. 400 pp.}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36855397}, author = {Berecz, Ágoston}, doi = {10.47074/HSCE.2025-2.18}, journal-iso = {HSCE}, journal = {HISTORICAL STUDIES ON CENTRAL EUROPE}, volume = {5}, unique-id = {36855397}, issn = {2786-0930}, year = {2025}, eissn = {2786-0922}, pages = {322-326}, orcid-numbers = {Berecz, Ágoston/0000-0002-7453-481X} } @article{MTMT:34727415, title = {Government-Coordinated Internal Colonization in the Era of Nationalism: The Case of Dualist Hungary}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34727415}, author = {Berecz, Ágoston}, doi = {10.1017/nps.2024.9}, journal-iso = {NATL PAPERS}, journal = {NATIONALITIES PAPERS}, volume = {x (First view)}, unique-id = {34727415}, issn = {0090-5992}, abstract = {Between 1881 and 1914, Hungarian governments established at least 36 agricultural colonies in today’s territory of Romania (nine new villages and 25 neighborhoods attached to existing ones). After 1894, a separate government fund was created for land purchases and the venture was entrusted to a Department of Colonization within the Ministry of Agriculture. This article gives an archival-based account of the political, financial, agricultural, and logistical aspects of the settlement program and compares it with its better-researched Prussian model. Investigating it as a series of interactions between settlers, the dedicated government agency, local potentates, and the surrounding population, it identifies structural impediments to the endeavor. Although there was a broad unity across political parties behind the idea of conquering new territories for the ethnic nation, the settlement program rested on a fragile consensus within the elite. Its expansion after 1900 was mainly due to Minister Ignác Darányi, whereas the steps of other high officials give nuances to Hungarian nationalities policies. When Prime Minister István Tisza dropped the program on the eve of the First World War, it was already in a state of hibernation because the governing party had realized that the settlers posed a political liability for them.}, year = {2024}, eissn = {1465-3923}, pages = {1-22}, orcid-numbers = {Berecz, Ágoston/0000-0002-7453-481X} } @article{MTMT:35646331, title = {Nations, privilèges et ethnicité: Le Banat habsbourgeois; Un laboratoire politique aux confins de l’Europe éclairée. By Benjamin Landais. Strasbourg: Association Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2023. 577 pp.}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/35646331}, author = {Berecz, Ágoston}, doi = {10.38145/2024.4.663}, journal-iso = {HUNG HIST REV}, journal = {HUNGARIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW: NEW SERIES OF ACTA HISTORICA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARIUM HUNGARICAE}, volume = {13}, unique-id = {35646331}, issn = {2063-8647}, year = {2024}, eissn = {2063-9961}, pages = {663-666}, orcid-numbers = {Berecz, Ágoston/0000-0002-7453-481X} } @article{MTMT:33697472, title = {Building a Bilingual Elite: “National Indifference” and Romanian Students in Hungarian High Schools (1867–1914)}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33697472}, author = {Berecz, Ágoston}, doi = {10.1017/S0067237823000036}, journal-iso = {AUSTRIAN HIST YEARB}, journal = {AUSTRIAN HISTORY YEARBOOK}, volume = {54}, unique-id = {33697472}, issn = {0067-2378}, abstract = {This article highlights the role investment in Hungarian-language skills played in the social reproduction of the Romanian national elite in Dualist Hungary. At any point during the era, little less than half of middle-class Romanian students attended Hungarian-language high schools, which their parents largely considered as language training institutions. Parental choices and the sons’ experiences gain significance when set against the view that such investment in linguistic capital was a subversive practice challenging nationalist mobilization. Based on former students’ memoirs, school yearbooks, and histories, this article concentrates on the strategies of parents, the class-based inequality of access to Hungarian, the language policies of schools, and teachers’ ambiguous treatment of Romanian students.}, year = {2023}, eissn = {0667-2378}, pages = {159-176}, orcid-numbers = {Berecz, Ágoston/0000-0002-7453-481X} } @article{MTMT:33874136, title = {How to Study Early Popular Engagement with Nationalism. Sources, Strategies, Research Traditions}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33874136}, author = {Berecz, Ágoston}, doi = {10.38145/2023.1.3}, journal-iso = {HUNG HIST REV}, journal = {HUNGARIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW: NEW SERIES OF ACTA HISTORICA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARIUM HUNGARICAE}, volume = {12}, unique-id = {33874136}, issn = {2063-8647}, year = {2023}, eissn = {2063-9961}, pages = {3-36}, orcid-numbers = {Berecz, Ágoston/0000-0002-7453-481X} }