Evaluating evidence
Subtitle: a positivist approach to reading sources on modern Japan
By: George Akita.
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780824825607
Subjects: Japan -- History -- 1868- -- Historiography
Description: George Akita persisted in the difficult task of reading documentary sources in Japanese, out of the conviction of their centrality to the historian's craft and his commitment to a positivist methodology to research and scholarship. In this book, he explains what he means by a positivist approach to reading sources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Japan's postwar positivists: the IHKM and YAKM Projects; title: Reading primary documents: letters, ikensho, nikki, and memoirs; title: the pitfalls; title: Hara Kei nikki and Eiin Hara Kei nikki compared: typos and other problems; title: Now that we have these primary sources; title: John W. Dower and Herbert P. Bix.