UID:
almafu_9960860313402883
Format:
1 online resource (366 p.)
ISBN:
9781800730472
Series Statement:
Making Sense of History ; 40
Content:
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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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of Illustrations --
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Acknowledgements --
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Narrativity and Historical Writing: Introductory Remarks --
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Part I. Professional History Writing --
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Chapter 1. Thucydides’ History of the Vanquished: Death, Narrative Gazes and Historical Time --
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Chapter 2. History beyond Narration: The Shifting Terrain of Bloodlands --
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Chapter 3. Secularization Narratives in 1950s Europe: Sources, Characteristics and Effects --
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Chapter 4. Narratives of Global History: Expounding Global Interconnections --
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Part II. School Textbooks in History --
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Chapter 5. More Than Just Barbarians: The Two-Faced Narrative of Ancient Persia in German Textbooks since 1900 --
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Chapter 6. Historicizing Present-Day European Societies by Telling Medieval (Hi)Story in Schoolbooks --
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Chapter 7. Narrative Structure of High School World History Textbooks in Postwar Japan --
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Chapter 8. Historical Maps as Narratives: Anchoring the Nation in History Textbooks --
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Part III. Histories in Various Media --
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Chapter 9. Social Media and Multimodal Historical Representation: Depicting Auschwitz on Instagram --
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Chapter 10. The Civil Rights Movement (Re)Narrated --
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Chapter 11. Media Narratives of 1970s Left-Wing Terrorism --
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Chapter 12. Time Travel as Running around in Circles: The Popular Historical Novel and the Sense of Historicity in Today’s Society --
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Part IV. National Histories --
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Chapter 13. National Narratives in Chinese Global History Writing --
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Chapter 14. Narratives of Brazilian History: From Liberal to Politically Incorrect --
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Chapter 15. Changing LUK: Nation and Narration in the First and the Third Editions of Life in the United Kingdom --
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Analysing Historical Narratives: Concluding Remarks --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781800730472
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800730472?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800730472
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800730472?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800730472
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