Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. 1 Introduction: Why Analyse Popular Historiographies? 1
5. PART I Popular and Academic Historiographies in the Nineteenth Century
6. 2 Questioning the Canon: Popular Historiography by Women in Britain and Germany (1750–1850) 21
7. 3 Popular Presentations of History in the Nineteenth Century: The Example of Die Gartenlaube 34
8. 4 Understanding the World around 1900: Popular World Histories in Germany 54
9. PART II Popular Presentations of History in Different Medias in the Twentieth Century
10. 5 History for Readers: Popular Historiography in Twentieth-Century Germany 73
11. 6 Between Political Coercion and Popular Expectations: Contemporary History on the Radio in the German Democratic Republic 89
12. 7 Moving History: Film and the Nazi Past in Germany since the Late 1970s 103
13. PART III Memory Culture and Popular Historiographies: Case Studies
14. 8 Memory History and the Standardization of History 121
15. 9 The Second World War in the Popular Culture of Memory in Norway 140
16. 10 Sissi: Popular Representations of an Empress 155
17. 11 Scientists as Heroes? Einstein, Curie and the Popular Historiography of Science 172
18. 12 Das Wunder von Bern: The 1954 Football World Cup, the German Nation and Popular Histories 188
19. References 201
20. Notes on Contributors 235
21. Index 239