History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan: Second Edition with New Preface Out this Month!
From the “PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION” of History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan: The World, the Nation and the Search for a Modern Past (pp. ix–xi; footnotes omited) ‘Historians place the highest value on monographic research, based on the archives.’ ‘We historians, I often think, tend to stop…