1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Genealogical Study on the Historian Edward Gibbon
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07610393
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
History of Europe and America
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| Research Institution | KANSAI UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
SHIBAI Keiji KANSAI UNIVERSITY,F.of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (00144311)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1995 – 1996
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| Keywords | Gibbon / historian / remittance / South Sea Company / historiography / Civilization |
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| Research Abstract |
The Grandfather Edward Gibbon, whose grandson was a famous historian Edward Gibbon, the author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, has been known as one of the infamous derectors of the SouthSea Company when the South-Sea Bubble bursted in 1720. After the Bubble, the Grandfather was punished and fined nearly *100,000 by the act of the Parliament, and retired to his residence at Putney.
By June of 1692, the Grandfather was under the service of British Artillery Train in Flanders as a post of Paymaster of the Train. After staying for some years in the Continent, he came home and came to be one of the dominant army contractors and one of the great creditors. Furthermore, from 1710 he ventured to remit money : to send money with exchange bills to British Forces abroad on the behalf of the Government. During the King William War and for the early years of the Spanish Succession War, the remittances were conducted by the hand of Henry Furnese, and after 1710 they were handed over the several remitters among whom there were John Lambert, Theodore Janssen, and Richard Hoare as well as Edward Gibbon.
Remitting activities were profitable, made him rich, and promised him jobs and offices through the connections with high government officials and political leaders. As for the Historian Edward Gibbon, I'm sure, his idea of trade and commerce in his History was influenced by the rise and fall of the Grandfather's trade.
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Research Products
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