Keith Jenkins Theory Of Post - Modern History

Keith Jenkins is a British historiographer,who advocates 'postmodern history' and be famous for the research on post-modern historical theories.Keith Jenkins is a professor in history at the University Colledge Chichester and works for the History PGCE.His researches focus on the genealogy of post-modern history,the nature of history,and historical thoughts.The major object of the research is Keith Jenkins's historical theories,successively,we discuss about the social condition of his theories in reality,about the issue of 'What is History', and some other historical theories of him.Furthermore,we attempt to indicate some origins of his theories,and draw the outline of how to refigure history in postmodern world.The chapterâ… introduces present reasearch condition about postmodern history.Also,it intuoduces shortly about Keith Jenkins and his publications.The chapterâ…¡refers to postmodern condition and postmodern history.Then,discusses how to understand some key terms like postmodernity and postmodernism.The third and the forth chapters are the main parts of this paper.The chapterâ…¢discusses 'What is History'.Firstly,we debate the difference of 'Past','Histroy' and 'Historigraphy'.Secondly,we discuss 'what is history in theory'and 'what it is in practice'.Finally,make a definition about history.The chapterâ…£discusses some other historical theories of Keith Jenkins.The chapterâ…¤is analyzing the idea of Jenkins's sources. One hand,it picks up some postmodern scholar(?) theory,on the other hand,absorbs the understanding of the problems that consist in traditional history.The chapterâ…¥is a conclusion about Keith Jenkins's historical theories and the writer's reflection.Keith Jenkins's theories not only shows the typical characteristics of the postmodern historiy, but also makes scholars reflects the environment where they study.In his theory,he absorbs many post-modern scholar(?) ideas,and based on it,he combines the unique of history and makes a lot of stimulating ideas.His analysis on the practice of the history is based on his understanding of the "postmodern condition",and brings out how we should do history. However,as a postmodern historian theoriest,Keith Jenkins has also been an obvious inadequacy of his views are too extreme,the whole language is also filled with a fighting attitude. We should keep a critical attitude on his thinking.