Overview

For all of the recent debates over the methods and theoretical underpinnings of the historical profession, scholars and laypeople alike still frequently think of history in terms of storytelling. Accordingly, historians and theorists have devoted much attention to how historical narratives work, illuminating the ways they can bind together events, shape an argument and lend support to ideology. From ancient Greece to modern-day bestsellers, the studies gathered here offer a wide-ranging analysis of the textual strategies used by historians. They show how in spite of the pursuit of truth and objectivity, the ways in which historians tell their stories are inevitably conditioned by their discursive contexts.

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Author:   Stefan Berger ,  Nicola Brauch ,  Chris Lorenz
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805397380

ISBN 10:   1805397389
Pages:   366
Publication Date:   01 December 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Narrativity and Historical Writing: Introductory Remarks Chris Lorenz, Stefan Berger and Nicola Brauch Part I: Professional History Writing Chapter 1. Thucydides' Narrative of the Vanquished: Death, Narrative Gazes and Historical Time Alexandra Lianeri Chapter 2. History beyond Narration: The Shifting Terrain of Bloodlands Wulf Kansteiner Chapter 3. Secularization Narratives in 1950s Europe: Sources, Characteristics and Effects Herman Paul Chapter 4. Narratives of Global History: Expounding Global Interconnections Gabriele Lingelbach Part II: School Textbooks in History Chapter 5. More Than Just Barbarians: The Two-Faced Narrative of Ancient Persia in German Textbooks since 1900 Björn Onken Chapter 6. Historicizing Present-Day European Societies by Telling Medieval (Hi)Story in Schoolbooks Daniel Wimmer Chapter 7. Narrative Structure of High School World History Textbooks in Postwar Japan Naoki Odanaka Chapter 8. Historical Maps as Narratives: Anchoring the Nation in History Textbooks Everardo Perez-Manjarrez and Mario Carretero Part III: Histories in Various Media Chapter 9. Social Media and Multimodal Historical Representation: Depicting Auschwitz on Instagram Robbert-Jan Adriaansen Chapter 10. The Civil Rights Movement (Re)Narrated Kenan van de Mieroop Chapter 11. Media Narratives of 1970s Left-Wing Terrorism Jörg Requate Chapter 12. Time Travel as Running around in Circles: The Popular Historical Novel and the Sense of Historicity in Today’s Society Daniel Fulda Part IV: National Histories Chapter 13. National Narratives in Chinese Global History Writing Xupeng Zhang Chapter 14. Narratives of Brazilian History: From Liberal to Politically Incorrect Valdei Araujo Chapter 15. Changing LUK: Nation and Narration in the First and the Third editions of Life in the United Kingdom Arthur Chapman Analysing Historical Narratives: Concluding Remarks Stefan Berger and Chris Lorenz Index

Reviews

“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

Author Information

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.

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