Analysing Historical Narratives

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

Bjoern 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

Joerg 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