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Jenkins provides a student introduction to contemporary historiographical debates. Through its radical critique of Carr and Elton, he embraces the postmodern-type approaches of thinkers such as Richard Rorty and Hayden White.
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Keith Jenkins is Senior Lecturer in history at Chichester Institute of Higher Education. He is the author of Rethinking History (Routledge 1991).
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..."the best selling introduction to historiography...it still remains nearly forty years later."
-"Canadian Journal of History
"Innovative, challenging . . . and important."
-Richard Brown, editor of "Teaching History
"Jenkins reformulates Carr's famous question What is History?' to devastating effect. An essential read."
-Alan White, "University of East London
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0415097258
- ISBN 13 9780415097253
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages212
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