List of Illustrations Introduction: Historical Writing and Civic Engagement: A Symbiotic Relationship Stefan Berger Chapter 1. Engagement: Metahistorical Considerations on a Disputed Attitude in Historical Studies Jörn Rüsen Chapter 2. The Ideal of Justice and Its Significance for Historians as Engaged Intellectuals Martin Wiklund Chapter 3. Committed Writing: History and Narrative Communication Revisited Kalle Pihlainen Chapter 4. The Historian-King: Political Leaders, Historical Consciousness and Wise Government Antoon de Baets Chapter 5. Historians with a Cause: Refugees’ Memory and Historical Practices in Interwar Greece Emilia Salvanou Chapter 6. The Making of the Zhanguo Ce Clique: The Politicization of History Knowledge in Wartime China Xin Fan Chapter 7. The Historicization of World War II in Greece After the Civil War: Looking Back on the Public Debate over a Lecture by British Historian C. M. Woodhouse Manos Avgeridis Chapter 8. Historians as Dissidents: Intellectual ‘Eros’ in Action Nina Witoszek Chapter 9. The Social Movement History as a social movement in and of itself Michihiro Okamoto Chapter 10. Professional Historical Writing and Human Rights Engagement in the Twenty-First Century: Innovative Approaches and their Dilemmas Nina Schneider Chapter 11. Using the Past: The Brazilian Cinema between Censorship and Representation Meize Lucas Chapter 12. Historians and the Trauma of the Past: The Destruction of Security Files on Citizens in Greece, 1989 Vangelis Karamanolakis Chapter 13. Historians and/in the New Media Effi Gazi Chapter 14. Street History: Coming to Terms with the Past in Occupy Movements Antonis Liakos Afterword: The Historian as an Engaged Intellectual: Historical Writing and Social Criticism – A Personal Retrospective Georg G. Iggers Index