Evaluating Evidence: A Positivist Approach to Reading Sources on Modern Japan

by 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 (s?sho), out of the conviction of their centrality to the historian's craft and his commitment to a positivist methodology to research and scholarship. He argues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824825608
• ISBN13: 9780824825607
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 8.9"