Introduction.- Part A: History, Theory and Methods of Textbook Research.- 1. History of the School Textbook.- 2. History of Textbook Research.- 3. Theories and Methods of Textbook Studies.- Part B: Textbooks in their Contexts.- 4. Educational Publishers and Educational Publishing.- 5. Textbook Authors, Authorship and Author Function.- 6. Textbooks and Education.- 7. Educational Media, Reproduction and Technology - Towards a critical Political Economy of Educational Media.- 8. Ideas and Concepts for Using Textbooks in the Context of Teaching and Learning in the Social Sciences and Humanities.- 9. Ideas and Concepts on Teaching Science and Geography.- 10. Textbook Quality Criteria and Evaluation.- 11. Materiality and Mediality of Textbooks.- Part C: Textbooks and their Contents.- 12. The Nation, Nationhood and Nationalism in Textbook Research from 1951 to 2017.- 13. Transnational Identities and Values in Textbooks and Curricula.- 14. Regions.- 15. Representations of Class, Race and Gender in Textbooks.- 16. On Normativity and Absence: Representation of Lgbti* in Textbook Research.- 17. Religion as a Subject of Textbook Analysis: An exemplary overview.- 18. Research into Textbook Portrayals of National Socialism and the Holocaust.- 19. Colonialism.- 20. Concepts of the Past: Socialism.- 21. History Textbooks and the Construction of Dictatorship.- 22. War in Textbooks.- 23. How diverse are our textbooks? Research findings in international perspective.- 24. Human Rights as Cultural Globalisation: The Rise of Human Rights in Textbooks, 1890-2013.- 25. The Environment.- Part D: Textbook Use, Effects and Practices.- 26. Textbook Use.- 27. Textbook Effects and Efficacy.- 28. Textbook practices: reading texts, touching books.- 29. New Directions.