Rethinking History by Keith Jenkins
This introductory text is written for students faced with the question "what is history?' Polemical in tone, the book argues against a skills-based approach to history in favour of a methodological one. Drawing widely on developments in philosophy, literary theory, critical theory and politics, Keith Jenkins argues that history must abandon the search for objective truth about the past and come to terms with its own processes of production. Brief, provocative and well-argued, the book aims to develop in its readers an historicist, sceptical, critical intelligence that will open up a new understanding of what history is, and can be, in the post-modern world.
'Far and away the best introduction to the state of the question currently available' - Hayden White, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Keith Jenkins is a University of Chichester Emeritus Professor. He is the author of five volumes on historical theory and co-editor of The Nature of History Reader (with Alun Munslow) and Manifestos for History (with Sue Morgan and Alun Munslow), both published by Routledge.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415067782 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415067782 |
| Title | Rethinking History |
| Author | Keith Jenkins |
| Series | Routledge Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 1991-10-31 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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