Preface to the new edition -- Historiography in the Service of the Meiji Government -- The Meiji Restoration and the Revival of Historiography by the Government -- Centralization of Government and the Department of History -- The Osaka Conference and the Office of Historiography -- The Political Crisis of 1881 and the Reorganization of the College of Historiography -- On the Way to the Meiji Constitution: From Government Office to University Institute -- The Activities of the Office of Historiography -- Organization and Staff up to 1881 -- Organization and Staff after 1881 -- 'Applied History' -- The Office of Historiography and Its Rivals -- The Form of Official Historiography -- Recording the Restoration -- Collecting Materials and Writing History -- The Language of Official Historiography -- Studying Western Methods (1): Zerffi -- The Dainihon hennenshi -- History as an Academic Discipline -- Scholarly Traditions -- History at the Imperial University -- Studying Western Methods (2): Rieβ -- The akademizumu School of History -- History and Ideology in Conflict -- History and the Public -- National Learning versus Chinese Learning -- 'Dr. Obliterator' -- The 'Kume Affair' -- The End of the Official History -- Scholarship versus Education: The Textbook Controversy of 1911 -- The Legacy: The Historiographical Institute since 1895 -- History and the Nation in Germany and Japan.