Comprehensive Studies on the Relationship between Europe and the Outside World in the History

Research Project

Project/Area Number	58410010
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (A)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	History of Europe and America
Research Institution	Kyoto University
Principal Investigator	OCHI Takeomi 京都大学, 文, 教授 (70025021)
Project Period (FY)	1983 – 1985
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 1985)
Budget Amount *help	¥10,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,900,000) Fiscal Year 1985: ¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000) Fiscal Year 1984: ¥2,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000) Fiscal Year 1983: ¥6,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,200,000)
Keywords	knowledge of the world / overseas expansion / 外部世界
Research Abstract	Our project aims to re-examine the relationship between Europe and the outside world in the history comprehensively. Each investigator has one special theme and the head investigator is responsible for control of special studies. The final report of our project has eleven articles; the results from the geography of the ancient Greeks, the relationship between the Roman Empire and the Dacians, Europeans' knowledge of the world in the period of the Enlightenment and so forth. Today,Europe doesn't play a leading part in the world. This situation has strong influence on views and studies of the European history. Recognizing the importance of this recent trend of historical studies, we try to reconsider the relationship between Europe and the outside world. So,it is one of most important results in this project that we aim to overcome the traditional method of the national history which underestimated the influence of the outside world, and to show some starting points for making a new historical view on Europe.