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Re-thinking History Book
Rethinking History addresses the question, "what is history?" with both an introduction to some of the debates surrounding that question, and a polemic. Its polemical thrust takes issue with an empiricist approach to history that fetishizes "the document" and "the facts," and considers that the past can be objectively known. Keith Jenkins challenges this conventional approach which fails to call into question the conditions of its own making, its own subservience to unrevealed interests, its own historical moment, and which excludes wider epistemological, methodological, and ideological practices that mediate the past into history. Jenkins advocates instead a history that overtly calls attention to its own processes of production and indicates the constructed rather than found nature of … read more...
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