Title: Evaluating evidence
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.
Subjects: Historiography, History, Japan, history, Japan, historiography
Places: Japan
Time periods: 1868-