Publisher's Synopsis
Local chronicles and homeland books are omnipresent in the culture of remembrance in rural areas. Although they only appeal to a small group of readers in detail, they represent a historiographical mass phenomenon in general. So far, however, they have largely been overlooked in history. Dirk Thomaschke has for the first time made a Germany-wide comparison of these books from the post-war period to the present. In doing so, he came across very independent processing rules of history, which make it obvious to speak of his own genre of historiography. The study also asks for comparable phenomena in the local history of the GDR.
