2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Visions of Union and Empire in the Early Modern Britain

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19730110
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Politics
Research Institution	Kyushu University
Principal Investigator	KIMURA Toshimichi Kyushu University, 法学研究院, 准教授 (80305408)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2010
Keywords	ブリテン統合 / 帝国 / 文明 / 人文主義
Research Abstract	The purpose of this research is to explore the traditions and political discourses on union and empire in the early modern Britain. It examined some aspects of this British problem, including conceptual change and original meaning of the contested term of 'empire', importance of some historical contexts (especially the union of England and Scotland, colonial expansion, and the independence of America), and ideological foundations of Britain as a multiple and composite state.