History and the state in nineteenth-century Japan / Margaret Mehl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mehl, Margaret.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

History.

Japan--Historiography.

Japan.

Historiography--Japan--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

x, 210 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

History and the state in 19th-century Japan

Place of Publication:

Houndmills [England] : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Contents:

2 Historiography in the Service of the Meiji Government 16

2.1 The Meiji Restoration and the Revival of Historiography by the Government 16

2.2 Centralization of Government and the Department of History 21

2.3 The Osaka Conference and the Office of Historiography 23

2.4 The Political Crisis of 1881 and the Reorganization of the College of Historiography 26

2.5 On the Way to the Meiji Constitution: From Government Office to University Institute 28

3 The Activities of the Office of Historiography 35

3.1 Organization and Staff up to 1881 35

3.2 Organization and Staff after 1881 43

3.3 'Applied History' 48

3.4 The Office of Historiography and Its Rivals 56

4 The Form of Official Historiography 61

4.1 Recording the Restoration 61

4.2 Collecting Materials and Writing History 64

4.3 The Language of Official Historiography 68

4.4 Studying Western Methods (1): Zerffi 71

4.5 The Dainihon hennenshi 81

5 History as an Academic Discipline 87

5.1 Scholarly Traditions 87

5.2 History at the Imperial University 93

5.3 Studying Western Methods (2): Rie[beta] 97

5.4 The akademizumu School of History 103

6 History and Ideology in Conflict 113

6.1 History and the Public 113

6.2 National Learning versus Chinese Learning 118

6.3 'Dr. Obliterator' 121

6.4 The 'Kume Affair' 126

6.5 The End of the Official History 133

6.6 Scholarship versus Education: The Textbook Controversy of 1911 140

7.1 The Legacy: The Historiographical Institute since 1895 148

7.2 History and the Nation in Germany and Japan 154.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-204) and index.

ISBN:

0333690885

0312211600

OCLC:

39117498