Shigeru Akita
Biographic Data
| ID | 4222627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shigeru Akita |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shigeru |
| FAMILY NAME | Akita |
| SIGNATURE | AKITA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Osaka |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Transatlantic World and East India (the Long Eighteenth Century)
History of the British Empire from Asian Perspectives
American Empire in Global History
Isabella Bird and Japan
Isabella Bird and Japan: A Reassessment, written by Kiyonori Kanasaka and translated by Nicholas PertweeUnbeaten Tracks in Japan: Revisiting Isabella Bird. New Abridged Edition with Notes and Commentaries, written by Kiyonori Kanasaka and translated by Nicholas Pertwee" published on 16 Jul 2021 by Brill
American Empire in Global History
This special issue on ‘American Empire in Global History’ is the result of a joint-research project at the Global History Division, the Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives
Intra-Asian Competition and Collaboration against the West
The traditional and orthodox interpretation of the British Raj (colonial rule in India) characterizes it in terms of the economic exploitation of India. However, recent historical studies have focused on the revival or development of the Indian cotton industry at the turn of the twentieth century. This article pays special attention to the rapid development of the Indian cotton-spinning industry as an export industry for the Chinese market and it…
The International Order of Asia in the 1930s and 1950s
Contents: Introduction: the international order of Asia in the 1930s and 1950s: contexts, hypotheses and scope, Shigeru Akita and Nicholas J. White Part 1 The International Order of Asia, the British Empire and the Sterling Area: British economic interests and the international order of Asia in the 1930s, Shigeru Akita British imperialism in Asia and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1930s-1950s, Yoichi Kibata The formation of an industrialization-orient…
Shimin no tame no sekai-shi [A World History for Citizens]
gral elements in the continuous and often inter-dependent story of human development in relation to the world's waterways
British informal empire in East Asia, 1880–1939
The export of Japanese cotton yarn to China also increased and exceeded that from India by 1913. Crisis and Deconstruction, 1914-1990, has attracted keen attention from Japanese scholars in the fields of British history, the history of the British Empire and Commonwealth, and Japanese colonial history. This chapter aims to review their treatment of the British informal empire in East Asia in the light of recent Japanese research. In fact, Great B…
The Aid-India Consortium, the World Bank, and the International Order of Asia, 1958-1968
The Aid-India Consortium was organized in 1958 as an international scheme to support the economic development of India, and led by the World Bank. This article reconsiders the economic diplomacy of the Indian Government in the 1950s and 1960s, by paying attention to the interactions between the Indian authorities and the donor countries and institutions, in the context of the Cold War regime, decolonization and economic aid to the newly independe…
World History and the Emergence of Global History in Japan
This article introduces, first, a well-researched historiography and the writings on "world history" in Japanese academic circles from the late 1940s to the 1980s. It discusses the influence of Marxism and modernization theory in postwar Japanese historiography, the efforts by Japanese historians to explore the field of world history, and some of their meaningful results. It then provides an overview of the recent development of a "new global his…
The International Order of Asia in the 1930s
The purpose of this chapter is to reconsider the nature and the formation of the 'International Order of Asia' in the 1930s in the light of new historiographical revisions in Great Britain as well as in Japan. Recently several Japanese economic historians have offered a new perspective on Asian economic history.1 They argue that the economic growth of Asian countries was led by the phenomenon of intra-Asian trade which began to grow rapidly aroun…
Gentlemanly Capitalism, Imperialism and Global History
British imperial history can now be seen as a bridge to global history. This study tries to renew the debate on British imperialism by combining Western and Asian historiography and constructing a new
Gentlemanly capitalism’, intra‐Asian trade and Japanese industrialisation at the turn of the last century
Recent scholarship, led by several Japanese economic historians, has offered new perspective on Asian economic history. They argue that the economic growth of Asian countries was led by the intra‐Asian trade which began to grow rapidly around the turn of the century. On the other side, prominent British imperial historians, P. J. Cain and A. G. Hopkins present a provocative thesis, ‘Gentlemanly capitalism and British expansion overseas’, in which…
American Empire in Global History
This special issue on ‘American Empire in Global History’ is the result of a joint-research project at the Global History Division, the Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives
The Aid-India Consortium, the World Bank, and the International Order of Asia, 1958-1968
The Aid-India Consortium was organized in 1958 as an international scheme to support the economic development of India, and led by the World Bank. This article reconsiders the economic diplomacy of the Indian Government in the 1950s and 1960s, by paying attention to the interactions between the Indian authorities and the donor countries and institutions, in the context of the Cold War regime, decolonization and economic aid to the newly independe…
Gentlemanly capitalism’, intra‐Asian trade and Japanese industrialisation at the turn of the last century
Recent scholarship, led by several Japanese economic historians, has offered new perspective on Asian economic history. They argue that the economic growth of Asian countries was led by the intra‐Asian trade which began to grow rapidly around the turn of the century. On the other side, prominent British imperial historians, P. J. Cain and A. G. Hopkins present a provocative thesis, ‘Gentlemanly capitalism and British expansion overseas’, in which…
The International Order of Asia in the 1930s
The purpose of this chapter is to reconsider the nature and the formation of the 'International Order of Asia' in the 1930s in the light of new historiographical revisions in Great Britain as well as in Japan. Recently several Japanese economic historians have offered a new perspective on Asian economic history.1 They argue that the economic growth of Asian countries was led by the phenomenon of intra-Asian trade which began to grow rapidly aroun…
Gentlemanly Capitalism, Imperialism and Global History
British imperial history can now be seen as a bridge to global history. This study tries to renew the debate on British imperialism by combining Western and Asian historiography and constructing a new
World History and the Emergence of Global History in Japan
This article introduces, first, a well-researched historiography and the writings on "world history" in Japanese academic circles from the late 1940s to the 1980s. It discusses the influence of Marxism and modernization theory in postwar Japanese historiography, the efforts by Japanese historians to explore the field of world history, and some of their meaningful results. It then provides an overview of the recent development of a "new global his…
British informal empire in East Asia, 1880–1939
The export of Japanese cotton yarn to China also increased and exceeded that from India by 1913. Crisis and Deconstruction, 1914-1990, has attracted keen attention from Japanese scholars in the fields of British history, the history of the British Empire and Commonwealth, and Japanese colonial history. This chapter aims to review their treatment of the British informal empire in East Asia in the light of recent Japanese research. In fact, Great B…
The Aid-India Consortium, the World Bank, and the International Order of Asia, 1958-1968
The Aid-India Consortium was organized in 1958 as an international scheme to support the economic development of India, and led by the World Bank. This article reconsiders the economic diplomacy of the Indian Government in the 1950s and 1960s, by paying attention to the interactions between the Indian authorities and the donor countries and institutions, in the context of the Cold War regime, decolonization and economic aid to the newly independe…
Shimin no tame no sekai-shi [A World History for Citizens]
gral elements in the continuous and often inter-dependent story of human development in relation to the world's waterways
The International Order of Asia in the 1930s and 1950s
Contents: Introduction: the international order of Asia in the 1930s and 1950s: contexts, hypotheses and scope, Shigeru Akita and Nicholas J. White Part 1 The International Order of Asia, the British Empire and the Sterling Area: British economic interests and the international order of Asia in the 1930s, Shigeru Akita British imperialism in Asia and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1930s-1950s, Yoichi Kibata The formation of an industrialization-orient…
Intra-Asian Competition and Collaboration against the West
The traditional and orthodox interpretation of the British Raj (colonial rule in India) characterizes it in terms of the economic exploitation of India. However, recent historical studies have focused on the revival or development of the Indian cotton industry at the turn of the twentieth century. This article pays special attention to the rapid development of the Indian cotton-spinning industry as an export industry for the Chinese market and it…
American Empire in Global History
Isabella Bird and Japan
Isabella Bird and Japan: A Reassessment, written by Kiyonori Kanasaka and translated by Nicholas PertweeUnbeaten Tracks in Japan: Revisiting Isabella Bird. New Abridged Edition with Notes and Commentaries, written by Kiyonori Kanasaka and translated by Nicholas Pertwee" published on 16 Jul 2021 by Brill
American Empire in Global History
This special issue on ‘American Empire in Global History’ is the result of a joint-research project at the Global History Division, the Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives
The Transatlantic World and East India (the Long Eighteenth Century)
History of the British Empire from Asian Perspectives
History (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Economic history (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works) · Empire (4 works)