Description:
From ancient Greece to modern-day bestsellers, the studies gathered in Analysing Historical Narratives offer a wide-ranging look at the techniques used by historical texts, showing how in spite of the pursuit of objectivity, narrative strategies inevitably derive from historians' contemporary concerns.
Brief description:
Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum since 2011. He is also Executive Chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University in the UK.
Review Quotes:
"This is an important and timely volume, which will play a very useful role in reflection on and teaching about history. It wisely forces us to link the scholarly, pedagogical, popular and digital aspects of making history through narrative." - David Gary Shaw, Wesleyan University
"Truly needed and genuinely topical. There have been very few such empirical studies into concrete historical narratives and across different genres." - Marek Tamm, Tallinn University