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Evaluating evidence : a positivist approach to reading sources on modern Japan /

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 approac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Akita, George
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Japan's postwar positivists: the IHKM and YAKM Projects
  • Reading primary documents: letters, ikensho, nikki, and memoirs--the pitfalls
  • Hara Kei nikki and Eiin Hara Kei nikki compared: typos and other problems
  • Now that we have these primary sources
  • John W. Dower and Herbert P. Bix.