TY - CHAP AU - Berecz, Ágoston ED - Cieślak, Marta ED - Müller, Anna TI - "She Sang Her Child to Sleep in Wallachian". Imagining and Living Romanian-Magyar Intermarriage in Late Habsburg Hungary TS - Imagining and Living Romanian-Magyar Intermarriage in Late Habsburg Hungary T2 - Gender and Nation in East Central Europe PB - Lexington Books CY - Lanham (MD), Maryland (MD) SN - 9781666940589 PY - 2025 SP - 29 EP - 58 PG - 30 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/35565202 ID - 35565202 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Berecz, Ágoston TI - Artists and Generals: The Representation of Colonial and National Rule through Street Naming JF - EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES J2 - EAST EUR POLIT SOC PY - 2025 SN - 0888-3254 DO - 10.1177/08883254251324212 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36052164 ID - 36052164 AB - 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. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Berecz, Ágoston TI - Frédéric Giraut – Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch coord., The Politics of Place Naming. Naming the World. [A helynévadás politikája. A világ elnevezése] TS - [A helynévadás politikája. A világ elnevezése] JF - NÉVTANI ÉRTESÍTŐ J2 - NÉVTANI ÉRTESÍTŐ VL - 47 PY - 2025 SP - 264 EP - 269 PG - 6 SN - 0139-2190 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36334335 ID - 36334335 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - CHAP AU - Berecz, Ágoston ED - Nagy, Ágoston ED - Lajtai, László ED - Németh, István ED - Hőnich, Henrik TI - Kisebbségi nyelvek az erdélyi és kelet-délkelet-magyarországi vármegyékben a dualizmus alatt T2 - A vármegye mint politikai tér és politikai képzet PB - Szépirodalmi Figyelő Alapítvány CY - Budapest SN - 9786155675935 PY - 2025 SP - 248 EP - 267 PG - 20 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36345054 ID - 36345054 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - CHAP AU - Berecz, Ágoston ED - Petru, Negura ED - Andrei, Cusco ED - Svetlana, Suveica TI - Treasonous Stripes. Embracing and Banning the Romanian Colors in Dualist Hungary TS - Embracing and Banning the Romanian Colors in Dualist Hungary T2 - Nationalism From Below in the East European and Soviet Borderlands PB - Bloomsbury Academic CY - London CY - New York, New York CY - New Delhi CY - Sydney SN - 9781350443747 PY - 2025 SP - 151 EP - 170 PG - 20 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36423211 ID - 36423211 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Berecz, Ágoston TI - The Last Peasant War: Violence and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe. By Jakub S. Beneš.: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025. 400 pp. JF - HISTORICAL STUDIES ON CENTRAL EUROPE J2 - HSCE VL - 5 PY - 2025 IS - 2 SP - 322 EP - 326 PG - 5 SN - 2786-0930 DO - 10.47074/HSCE.2025-2.18 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36855397 ID - 36855397 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Berecz, Ágoston TI - Government-Coordinated Internal Colonization in the Era of Nationalism: The Case of Dualist Hungary JF - NATIONALITIES PAPERS J2 - NATL PAPERS VL - x (First view) PY - 2024 SP - 1 EP - 22 PG - 22 SN - 0090-5992 DO - 10.1017/nps.2024.9 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34727415 ID - 34727415 AB - 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. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Berecz, Ágoston TI - 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. JF - HUNGARIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW: NEW SERIES OF ACTA HISTORICA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARIUM HUNGARICAE J2 - HUNG HIST REV VL - 13 PY - 2024 IS - 4 SP - 663 EP - 666 PG - 4 SN - 2063-8647 DO - 10.38145/2024.4.663 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/35646331 ID - 35646331 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Berecz, Ágoston TI - Building a Bilingual Elite: “National Indifference” and Romanian Students in Hungarian High Schools (1867–1914) JF - AUSTRIAN HISTORY YEARBOOK J2 - AUSTRIAN HIST YEARB VL - 54 PY - 2023 SP - 159 EP - 176 PG - 18 SN - 0067-2378 DO - 10.1017/S0067237823000036 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33697472 ID - 33697472 AB - 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. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Berecz, Ágoston TI - How to Study Early Popular Engagement with Nationalism. Sources, Strategies, Research Traditions TS - Sources, Strategies, Research Traditions JF - HUNGARIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW: NEW SERIES OF ACTA HISTORICA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARIUM HUNGARICAE J2 - HUNG HIST REV VL - 12 PY - 2023 IS - 1 SP - 3 EP - 36 PG - 34 SN - 2063-8647 DO - 10.38145/2023.1.3 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33874136 ID - 33874136 LA - English DB - MTMT ER -