Vol. 71 No. 4 (2023): NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics
Book Review

Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries: The Entangled Nationalization of Names and Naming in a Late Habsburg Borderland

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  • I. M. Nick
I. M. Nick
American Name Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/names.2023.2594

Published 2023-12-20

Copyright (c) 2023 I. M. Nick

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