Evaluating Evidence : : A Positivist Approach to Reading Sources on Modern Japan / / George Akita.
Evaluating Evidence is based on the grueling lessons learned by a senior scholar during three decades of tutoring by, and collaboration with, Japanese historians. George Akita persisted in the difficult task of reading documentary sources in Japanese, most written in calligraphic style (sôsho), out...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Japan's Postwar Positivists
- 2. Reading Primary Documents
- 3. Hara Kei Nikki and Eiin Hara Kei Nikki Compared
- 4. Now That We Have These Primary Sources
- 5. John W. Dower and Herbert P. Bix
- Concluding Remarks
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author