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