2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An Eighteenth-Century Briton's Vision of Imperial Governance: Thomas Pownall
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23520890
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
History of Europe and America
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | トマス・ポーノル / 先住民 / アメリカ / 植民地時代 / イギリス帝国 |
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| Research Abstract |
This project focused on Thomas Pownall, an eighteenth-century Briton who visited and wrote extensively on Britain's North American Colonies. It aimed at connecting insights from US history and British Imperial history by analyzing the development of Pownall's vision of imperial governance. It paid attention to Pownall's ideas on the role Native American Tribes might play in the evolving British attempts at more effectively controlling the colonies. Pownall has left some interesting observations about the Mohawks, one of the leading native American tribes, but failed to give them a sustained thinking in his later, major publication called The Administration of Colonies. Knowledge and insight gleaned in the pursuit of this subject, however, has been successfully reflected in the two history textbooks this author undertook (one published; the other soon forthcoming).
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