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 · Based loosely on Keith Jenkins’ Rethinking History, this video looks at postmodernism effect on the writing of history, and how ideology, methodology and epi.  · 5 thoughts on “ Book: Notes on ‘Re-thinking History’ by Keith Jenkins ” emmapocock August 5, at I read a book called A very short introduction to history by John Arnold which might be interesting for you as a second opinion – its a few years since I read it but from memory it covers a lot of these same themes and is an easy (but not patronising!) readEstimated Reading Time: 8 mins.  · In Rethinking History (), a remarkable bestseller, much translated, Jenkins argues compellingly that the conventional view of academic history – that it enjoys the benefits of a uniquely effective epistemology and methodology which enables it to discover from historical facts, properly established, some sort of historical truth, a truth, moreover that can be conveyed to a willing .

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Jenkins posits the idea that the ability to recreate history is a myth. His philosophy is that the real truth of the past is unattainable. To elaborate, an ind. History is the written account as perceived by an historian. It is the historian’s quest to learn what has passed and why it is significant. 5 thoughts on “ Book: Notes on ‘Re-thinking History’ by Keith Jenkins ” emmapocock August 5, at I read a book called A very short introduction to history by John Arnold which might be interesting for you as a second opinion – its a few years since I read it but from memory it covers a lot of these same themes and is an easy (but not patronising!) read. Based loosely on Keith Jenkins’ Rethinking History, this video looks at postmodernism effect on the writing of history, and how ideology, methodology and epi.