| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 356 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Making sense of history ; Volume 40 |
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Making sense of history.
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| Contents |
Narrativity and Historical Writing : Introductory Remarks / Chris Lorenz, Stefan Berger and Nicola Brauch -- Professional History Writing. Thucydides' History of the Vanquished : Death, Narrative Gazes and Historical Time / Alexandra Lianeri ; History beyond Narration : The Shifting Terrain of Bloodlands / Wulf Kansteiner ; Secularization Narratives in 1950s Europe : Sources, Characteristics and Effects / Herman Paul ; Narratives of Global History : Expounding Global Interconnections / Gabriele Lingelbach -- School Textbooks in History. More Than Just Barbarians : The Two-Faced Narrative of Ancient Persia in German Textbooks since 1900 / Björn Onken ; Historicizing Present-Day European Societies by Telling Medieval (Hi)Story in Schoolbooks / Daniel Wimmer ; Narrative Structure of High School World History Textbooks in Postwar Japan / Naoki Odanaka ; Historical Maps as Narratives : Anchoring the Nation in History Textbooks / Everardo Perez-Manjarrez and Mario Carretero -- Histories in Various Media. Social Media and Multimodal Historical Representation : Depicting Auschwitz on Instagram / Robbert-Jan Adriaansen ; The Civil Rights Movement (Re)Narrated / Kenan Van de Mieroop ; Media Narratives of 1970s Left-Wing Terrorism / Jörg Requate ; Time Travel as Running around in Circles : The Popular Historical Novel and the Sense of Historicity in Today's Society / Daniel Fulda -- National Histories. National Narratives in Chinese Global History Writing / Xupeng Zhang ; Narratives of Brazilian History : From Liberal to Politically Incorrect / Valdei Araujo ; 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 |
| Summary |
For all of the 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 twenty-first century 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. -- Adapted from publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Historiography.
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History -- Methodology.
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historiography.
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HISTORY / Historiography
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Historiography
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History -- Methodology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Berger, Stefan, editor.
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Brauch, Nicola, editor.
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Lorenz, Chris, 1950- editor.
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| LC no. |
2020052240 |
| ISBN |
9781800730472 |
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1800730470 |
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