Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part One The Appropriation of the Past -- The Melancholy of History: Disenchantment and the Possibility of Narrative after the French Revolution -- The Emancipation of the Past, as due to the Revolutionary French Ideology of Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité -- Modernising the Past: The Life of the Gauls under the French Republic -- From Bökendorf to Berlin: Private Careers, Public Sphere, and How the Past Changed in Jacob Grimm's Lifetime -- Part Two Monuments for the Past -- Public Commemorations and Private Interests: The Politics of State Funerals in London and Paris, 1806-1810 -- Inventing Literary Heritage: National Consciousness and Editorial Scholarship in Sweden, 1810-1830 -- Literature as Access to the Past: The Rise of Historical Genres in the Netherlands, 1800-1850 -- Part Three A Public for the Past -- Free Access to the History of Art: Art Reproduction and the Appropriation of the History of Art in Nineteenth-Century Culture -- Potgieter's 'Rijksmuseum' and the Public Presentation of Dutch History in the National Museum (1800-1844) -- Singing of Conquest? Opera, History, and the Ambiguities of European Imperialism -- Nineteenth-Century National Opera and Representations of the Past in the Public Sphere -- 'Reaping the Harvest of the Experiment?' The Government's Attempt to Train Enlightened Citizens through History Education in Revolutionary France (1789-1802) -- Part Four Past and Present -- The Past as a Place: Challenging Private Ownership of History in the United States -- Impressed Images/Expressed Experiences: The Historical Imagination of Politics -- Bibliography -- Index.