Ebook: Die Erfindung der Zeitgeschichte: Geschichtsschreibung und Journalismus zwischen Aufklärung und Vormärz. Mit einer Edition von 93 Briefen von Friedrich Buchholz an Johann Friedrich Cotta und Johann Georg Cotta, 1805-1833

Contemporary history as a specific form of reflection on the present took on a new quality during the period of upheaval around 1800. It emerged from the experience of accelerated political and economic change and the ensuing transformations of the media. Contemporary history has focused on financial crises, revolutions, and geopolitical conflicts; its territory is in the border zone between historiography and journalism.