Stefan Berger (editor) - Analysing Historical Narratives: On Academic, Popular and Educational Framings of the Past

Analysing Historical Narratives

Studies in Historical Cultures

General Editor: Stefan Berger

Founding Editor: Jrn Rsen

Bridging the gap between historical theory and the study of historical memory, this series crosses the boundaries between both academic disciplines and cultural, social, political and historical contexts. In an age of rapid globalization, which tends to manifest itself on an economic and political level, locating the cultural practices involved in generating its underlying historical sense is an increasingly urgent task.

Recent volumes:

Volume 40

Analysing Historical Narratives: On Academic, Popular and Educational Framings of the Past

Edited by Stefan Berger, Nicola Brauch and Chris Lorenz

Volume 39

Postwar Soldiers: Historical Controversies and West German Democratization, 19451955

Jrg Echternkamp

Volume 38

Constructing Industrial Pasts: Heritage, Historical Culture and Identity in Regions Undergoing Structural Economic Transformation

Edited by Stefan Berger

Volume 37

The Engaged Historian: Perspectives on the Intersections of Politics, Activism and the Historical Profession

Edited by Stefan Berger

Volume 36

Contemplating Historical Consciousness: Notes from the Field

Edited by Anna Clark and Carla L. Peck

Volume 35

Empathy and History: Historical Understanding in Re-enactment, Hermeneutics and Education

Tyson Retz

Volume 34

The Ethos of History: Time and Responsibility

Edited by Stefan Helgesson and Jayne Svenungsson

Volume 33

History and Belonging: Representations of the Past in Contemporary European Politics

Edited by Stefan Berger and Caner Tekin

Volume 32

Making Nordic Historiography: Connections, Tensions and Methodology, 18501970

Edited by Pertti Haapala, Marja Jalava and Simon Larsson

Volume 31

Contesting Deregulation: Debates, Practices and Developments in the West since the 1970s

Edited by Knud Andresen and Stefan Mller

For a full volume listing, please see the series page on our website: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/series/making-sense-of-history

On Academic, Popular and Educational Framings of the Past

Edited by Stefan Berger, Nicola Brauch and Chris Lorenz

First published in 2021 by

Berghahn Books

www.berghahnbooks.com

2021 Stefan Berger, Nicola Brauch and Chris Lorenz

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Berger, Stefan, editor. | Brauch, Nicola, editor. | Lorenz, Chris, 1950- editor.

Title: Analysing historical narratives : on academic, popular and educational framings of the past / edited by Stefan Berger, Nicola Brauch and Chris Lorenz.

Other titles: On academic, popular and educational framings of the past

Description: New York : Berghahn Books, 2021. | Series: Making sense of history; 40 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020052239 (print) | LCCN 2020052240 (ebook) | ISBN 9781800730465 (hardback) | ISBN 9781800730472 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Historiography. | History--Methodology.

Classification: LCC D13 .A6325 2021 (print) | LCC D13 (ebook) | DDC 907.2--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020052239

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020052240

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978-1-80073-046-5 hardback

ISBN 978-1-80073-047-2 ebook

Chris Lorenz, Stefan Berger and Nicola Brauch

Alexandra Lianeri

Wulf Kansteiner

Herman Paul

Gabriele Lingelbach

Bjrn Onken

Daniel Wimmer

Naoki Odanaka

Everardo Perez-Manjarrez and Mario Carretero

Robbert-Jan Adriaansen

Kenan Van de Mieroop

Jrg Requate

Daniel Fulda

Xupeng Zhang

Valdei Araujo

Arthur Chapman

Stefan Berger and Chris Lorenz

This volume is a result of the long-standing engagement of the three editors with historical narratives. Nicola Brauch has dealt with the narrative structure of texts produced within the field of historical didactics, whereas Chris Lorenz has reflected on the debate on narrative in historical theory. He and Stefan Berger have a long-standing cooperation in examining historical narratives produced within national historiographies that go back to the research programme National Histories in Modern Europe, which was funded by the European Science Foundation between 2003 and 2008. They co-edited three collected volumes in this project. Nicola Brauch and Stefan Berger have intensified their cooperation since 2010, when both found themselves direct colleagues at Ruhr-University Bochum. In Bochum they were joined by Chris Lorenz, who came as a Marie-Curie / Gerda Henkel Fellow in 201415, and after became an international research fellow at the Institute for Social Movements (ISB).

The foundation of this volume was built at the conference Analysing Historical Narratives, which took place in Bochum in 2016. We would like to thank the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for funding the conference. We would also like to thank our authors for working with us during the following five years to create the present volume. We hope that this volume will be of interest to all who are reflecting on historical narratives in teaching, research, historical theory and the history of historiography. It is in no way meant as a comprehensive treatment of the subject area. Rather we present a range of case studies in the hope that they might inspire others to analyse the ways in which the narrative framings of history actually work.