Analysing Historical Narratives

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum since 2011. He is also Executive Chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University in the UK.

“This is an important and timely volume, which will play a very useful role in reflection on and teaching about history. It wisely forces us to link the scholarly, pedagogical, popular and digital aspects of making history through narrative.” • David Gary Shaw, Wesleyan University“Truly needed and genuinely topical. There have been very few such empirical studies into concrete historical narratives and across different genres.” • Marek Tamm, Tallinn University

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNarrativity and Historical Writing: Introductory RemarksChris Lorenz, Stefan Berger and Nicola BrauchPart I: Professional History WritingChapter 1. Thucydides' Narrative of the Vanquished: Death, Narrative Gazes and Historical TimeAlexandra LianeriChapter 2. History beyond Narration: The Shifting Terrain of BloodlandsWulf KansteinerChapter 3. Secularization Narratives in 1950s Europe: Sources, Characteristics and EffectsHerman PaulChapter 4. Narratives of Global History: Expounding Global InterconnectionsGabriele LingelbachPart II: School Textbooks in HistoryChapter 5. More Than Just Barbarians: The Two-Faced Narrative of Ancient Persia in German Textbooks since 1900Björn OnkenChapter 6. Historicizing Present-Day European Societies by Telling Medieval (Hi)Story in SchoolbooksDaniel WimmerChapter 7. Narrative Structure of High School World History Textbooks in Postwar JapanNaoki OdanakaChapter 8. Historical Maps as Narratives: Anchoring the Nation in History TextbooksEverardo Perez-Manjarrez and Mario CarreteroPart III: Histories in Various MediaChapter 9. Social Media and Multimodal Historical Representation: Depicting Auschwitz on InstagramRobbert-Jan AdriaansenChapter 10. The Civil Rights Movement (Re)NarratedKenan van de MieroopChapter 11. Media Narratives of 1970s Left-Wing TerrorismJörg RequateChapter 12. Time Travel as Running around in Circles: The Popular Historical Novel and the Sense of Historicity in Today’s SocietyDaniel FuldaPart IV: National HistoriesChapter 13. National Narratives in Chinese Global History WritingXupeng ZhangChapter 14. Narratives of Brazilian History: From Liberal to Politically IncorrectValdei AraujoChapter 15. Changing LUK: Nation and Narration in the First and the Third editions of Life in the United KingdomArthur ChapmanAnalysing Historical Narratives: Concluding RemarksStefan Berger and Chris LorenzIndex