Sebastian Jobs ist Postdoktorand am Graduiertenkolleg "Kulturkontakt und Wissenschaftsdiskurs" an der Universität Rostock. Alf Lüdtke ist Honorarprofessor an der Universität Erfurt. / Sebastian Jobs ist Postdoktorand am Graduiertenkolleg "Kulturkontakt und Wissenschaftsdiskurs" an der Universität Rostock. Alf Lüdtke ist Honorarprofessor an der Universität Erfurt.

Contents

Unsettling History: Introduction
Sebastian Jobs/Alf Lüdtke

1. History: (Non-)Western Pitfalls and Expectations

Memories of Things Future: Future Effects in "The Production of History"
David William Cohen

Multiple Narratives: Scale and Discontinuity in History
Jacques Revel
Empire, Ethics, and the Calling of History: Knowledge in the Postcolony
Dipesh Chakrabarty

2. Archiving: Administering Lives and Memories?

[...]-a Chinese Virtual "Heimatmuseum"
Michael Schoenhals

Ranke in the Lobby of the Archive: Metaphors and Conditions of Historical Research
Philipp Müller

Archiving a Life: Post-Shoah Paradoxes of Memory Legacies
Leora Auslander

At Large in the "Gray Zone": Narrating the Romani Holocaust
Eve Rosenhaft

3. Narrating the Past: Quest for Authenticity vs. Search for Professionalism

Getting Personal: On Subjectivity in Historical Practice
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Narrating the Siege of Leningrad: Official and Unofficial Practices in the Memorialization of the "Great Patriotic War"
Andrea Zemskov-Züge

Masterlore: Reflections on an Ancient Genre in the New World
Rhys Isaac

Moving Bones: Unsettled Histories in South Africa and the Return of Sarah Baartman
Gesine Krüger

Contributors / Contents

Unsettling History: Introduction
Sebastian Jobs/Alf Lüdtke

1. History: (Non-)Western Pitfalls and Expectations

Memories of Things Future: Future Effects in "The Production of History"
David William Cohen

Multiple Narratives: Scale and Discontinuity in History
Jacques Revel
Empire, Ethics, and the Calling of History: Knowledge in the Postcolony
Dipesh Chakrabarty

2. Archiving: Administering Lives and Memories?

[...]-a Chinese Virtual "Heimatmuseum"
Michael Schoenhals

Ranke in the Lobby of the Archive: Metaphors and Conditions of Historical Research
Philipp Müller

Archiving a Life: Post-Shoah Paradoxes of Memory Legacies
Leora Auslander

At Large in the "Gray Zone": Narrating the Romani Holocaust
Eve Rosenhaft

3. Narrating the Past: Quest for Authenticity vs. Search for Professionalism

Getting Personal: On Subjectivity in Historical Practice
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Narrating the Siege of Leningrad: Official and Unofficial Practices in the Memorialization of the "Great Patriotic War"
Andrea Zemskov-Züge

Masterlore: Reflections on an Ancient Genre in the New World
Rhys Isaac

Moving Bones: Unsettled Histories in South Africa and the Return of Sarah Baartman
Gesine Krüger

Contributors