Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Narrativity and Historical Writing: Introductory Remarks 1
6. Part I. Professional History Writing
7. Chapter 1. Thucydides’ History of the Vanquished: Death, Narrative Gazes and Historical Time 29
8. Chapter 2. History beyond Narration: The Shifting Terrain of Bloodlands 51
9. Chapter 3. Secularization Narratives in 1950s Europe: Sources, Characteristics and Effects 83
10. Chapter 4. Narratives of Global History: Expounding Global Interconnections 99
11. Part II. School Textbooks in History
12. Chapter 5. More Than Just Barbarians: The Two-Faced Narrative of Ancient Persia in German Textbooks since 1900 117
13. Chapter 6. Historicizing Present-Day European Societies by Telling Medieval (Hi)Story in Schoolbooks 131
14. Chapter 7. Narrative Structure of High School World History Textbooks in Postwar Japan 147
15. Chapter 8. Historical Maps as Narratives: Anchoring the Nation in History Textbooks 164
16. Part III. Histories in Various Media
17. Chapter 9. Social Media and Multimodal Historical Representation: Depicting Auschwitz on Instagram 191
18. Chapter 10. The Civil Rights Movement (Re)Narrated 209
19. Chapter 11. Media Narratives of 1970s Left-Wing Terrorism 223
20. Chapter 12. Time Travel as Running around in Circles: The Popular Historical Novel and the Sense of Historicity in Today’s Society 240
21. Part IV. National Histories
22. Chapter 13. National Narratives in Chinese Global History Writing 259
23. Chapter 14. Narratives of Brazilian History: From Liberal to Politically Incorrect 282
24. Chapter 15. Changing LUK: Nation and Narration in the First and the Third Editions of Life in the United Kingdom 304
25. Analysing Historical Narratives: Concluding Remarks 327
26. Index 347