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Introduction. Stefan Berger, Chris Lorenz, and Billie Melman Part I: Popular National Histories in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 1. Revolutionary Politics and Revolutionary Aesthetics: Opera, Classics, and Popular National History. Simon Goldhill 2. History as Romance and History as Atonement: Nineteenth-Century Images from Britain and France. Stephen Bann 3. 'That which we learn with the eye': Popular Histories, Modernity, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century London and Paris. Billie Melman 4. Popular Heritage and Commodification Debates in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain, France, and Germany. Astrid Swensson Part II: Popular National Histories in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 5. Imagining Russia's Pasts: Revolutionary and Tsarist Russia in American, British and German Cinema, 1927-1939. Sarah Street 6. Balkans Baedecker for Ubermensch Tourists: Janko Janev's Popular Historiosophy. Balasz Trencsenyi 7. Exhibiting Scandinavian Culture: The National Museums of Denmark and Sweden. Peter Aronsson 8. Locating Transylvanians: Real and Fictional Ethnohistories. Borbala Zsuzsanna Torok Part III: Popular National Histories in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century 9. Migrants, Foreigners, Jews, and the Cultural Structure of Prejudice: The Nation as Performative Event in US and German TV Crime Dramas. Wulf Kansteiner 10. Filming a Livable Past: The 1970s-1980s in Contemporary Russian Cinema. Oksana Sarkisova 11. On Track to the Grand Prix: The National Eurovision Competition as National History. Philip V. Bohlman 12. A City and its Pasts: Popular Histories in Kaliningrad between Regionalization and Nationalization. Stefan Berger 13. The Internet and National Histories. Markku Jokisipila 14. 'Unpopular past': The Argentine Madres de Plaza de Mayo and their Rebellion against History. Berber Bevernage

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