Analysing Historical Narratives

On Academic, Popular and Educational Framings of the Past
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-046-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 683 g

Reihe: Making Sense of History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berger, Stefan

Brauch, Nicola

Lorenz, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Lorenz, Chris
Chris Lorenz is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of History at VU University of Amsterdam and International Research Associate at the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum since 2016.

Berger, Stefan
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.

Brauch, Nicola
Nicola Brauch is Professor of History Didactics/History Education for the History Department at Ruhr University Bochum since 2014.

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.