Shigeru Akita and the Study of British Imperial History in Japan
In: Asian Review of World HistoriesProfessor Emeritus, Seijo University Tokyo Japan
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Shigeru Akita’s research into global history is solidly based on his study of British imperial history. Starting his career as an imperial historian by probing the role of the Indian army in Britain’s empire, he incorporated such concepts as gentlemanly capitalism, intra-Asian trade, and structural power into his historical analysis of British rule in Asia, an analysis that provided the framework for his picture of global history. Recently he has been studying the process of industrialization in Asian countries within the historical context of the Cold War and decolonization, focusing on the role of development aid. His organizational talent has been amply displayed by his presidency of the Asian Association of World Historians, by his instrumental role in organizing the early activities of the Study Group of British Imperial and Commonwealth History, and by his successful efforts to make Osaka University a leading research center of global history.
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Akita, Shigeru, and Michihisa Hosokawa. 2021. Komagatamaru jiken: Indo taiheiyo sekai to Igirisu Teikoku (The Komagata Maru incident: The Indo-Pacific Ocean world and the British Empire). Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo.
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Akita, Shigeru, and Shiro Momoki, eds. 2013. Gurobaru hisutorii to teikoku (Global history and empire). Osaka: Osakadaigaku Shuppankai.
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Akita, Shigeru, and Shiro Momoki, eds. 2016. Gurobaru hisutorii to senso (Global history and war). Osaka: Osakadaigaku Shuppankai.
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Akita, Shigeru, and Shiro Momoki, eds. 2020. Gurobaru hisutorii kara kangaeru atarashii rekishikyoiku (New history education viewed from the perspective of global history). Osaka: Osakadaigaku Shuppankai.
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Akita, Shigeru, ed. 2002. Gentlemanly Capitalism, Imperialism and Global History. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
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Akita, Shigeru, ed. 2013. Ajia kara mita gurobaru hisutorii: “choki no 18 seiki” kara “higashi Ajia no keizaiteki fukko” e (Creating global history from Asian Perspectives: From “the long eighteenth century” to “economic recovery of East Asia”). Kyoto: Minerva Shobo.
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Akita, Shigeru, ed. 2018. “Daibunki” wo koete: Ajia kara mita 19 seikiron saiko (Beyond the Great Divergence: Reconsidering the nineteenth century from Asian Perspectives). Kyoto: Minerva Shobo.
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Akita, Shigeru. 2003. Igirisu Teikoku to Ajia kokusaichitsujo: Hegemonii kokka kara teikokuteki na kozoteki kenryoku e (The British Empire and the international order in Asia: From the hegemonic state to the imperial structural power). Nagoya: Nagoya Daigaku Shuppankai.
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Akita, Shigeru. 2012. Igirisu Teikoku no rekishi: Ajia kara kangaeru (A history of the British Empire: Viewed from Asia). Tokyo: Chuokoron Shinsha.
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Akita, Shigeru. 2016. “From South Asian Studies to Global History: Searching for Asian Perspective.” In How Empire Shaped Us, edited by Antoinette Burton and Dane Kennedy, 117–128. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academy.
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Akita, Shigeru. 2017. Teikoku kara kaihatsu enjo e: Sengo Ajia kokusai chitsujo to kogyoka (From empires to development aid: International economic order of Asia in the 1950s–60s). Nagoya: Nagoya Daigaku Shuppankai.
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Akita, Shigru, Gerold Krozewski, and Shoichi Watanabe, eds. 2014. The Transformation of the International Order of Asia: Decolonization, the Cold War, and the Colombo Plan. London and New York: Routledge.
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Cain, P. J., and A. G. Hopkins. 1994. Jentoruman shihonshugi to Daiei Teikoku (Gentlemanly capitalism and the British Empire). Translated by Yukio Takeuchi and Shigeru Akita. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten.
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Cain, P. J., and A. G. Hopkins. 1997a. Jentoruman shihonshugi no teikoku: Sosei to bocho 1688–1914 (British imperialism: Innovation and expansion, 1688–1914). Translated by Yukio Takeuchi and Shigeru Akita. Nagoya: Nagoya Daigaku Shuppankai.
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Cain, P. J., and A. G. Hopkins. 1997b. Jentoruman shihonshugi no teikoku: Kiki to kaitai 1914–1990 (British imperialism: Crisis and deconstruction, 1914–1990). Translated by Yoichi Kibata and Yusuke Dan. Nagoya: Nagoya Daigaku Shuppankai.
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Hamashita, Takeshi. 1990. Kindai Chugoku no kokusaiteki keiki: Choko boeki shisutemu to kindai Ajia (International moments and modern China: The tributary trade system and modern Asia). Tokyo: Tokyo University Press.
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Hirata, Masahiro. 2021. Buriten Teikokushi no ima: Gurobaru historii kara posuto- koroniaru made (Current studies in British imperial history: From global history to postcolonialism). Kyoto: Koyo Shobo.
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Inose, Kumie. 1990. Daiei Teikoku wa music hall kara (The British Empire and music halls). Tokyo: Asahi Shimbunsha.
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Inose, Kumie. 2007/2017. Daiei Teikoku to iu keiken (The British Empire: A historical experience). Tokyo: Kodansha.
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Kawakita, Minoru. 1983. Kogyoka no rekishiteki zentei: Teikoku to jentoruman (Historical background of industrialization: The empire and gentlemen). Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten.
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Kawakita, Minoru. 1990. Minshu no Daiei Teikoku: Kinsei Igirisu shakai to Amerika imin (Common people and the British Empire: Early modern Britain and emigration to America). Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten.
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Kawakita, Minoru. 2007. “Teikokushugishi kara teikokushi e” (From the history of imperialism to imperial history). In Gendai sekai to Igirisu Teikoku (The British Empire and the contemporary world), edited by Yoichi Kibata, 355–379. Kyoto: Minerva Shobo.
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Kibata, Yoichi. 2008. Igirisu Teikoku to teikokushugi: Hikaku to kankei no shiza (The British Empire and imperialism: Comparison and connectedness). Tokyo: Yushisha.
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Kibata, Yoichi et al. eds. 2004–2009. Igirisu Teikoku to 20 Seiki (The British Empire and the twentieth century), 5 vols. Kyoto: Minerva Shobo.
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Shigeru Akita and the Study of British Imperial History in Japan
In: Asian Review of World HistoriesProfessor Emeritus, Seijo University Tokyo Japan
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Shigeru Akita’s research into global history is solidly based on his study of British imperial history. Starting his career as an imperial historian by probing the role of the Indian army in Britain’s empire, he incorporated such concepts as gentlemanly capitalism, intra-Asian trade, and structural power into his historical analysis of British rule in Asia, an analysis that provided the framework for his picture of global history. Recently he has been studying the process of industrialization in Asian countries within the historical context of the Cold War and decolonization, focusing on the role of development aid. His organizational talent has been amply displayed by his presidency of the Asian Association of World Historians, by his instrumental role in organizing the early activities of the Study Group of British Imperial and Commonwealth History, and by his successful efforts to make Osaka University a leading research center of global history.
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