"The History of British Expansion" - English

…He studied at Cambridge University, and after serving as a professor of Latin at London University, he was appointed as the Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in 1869, where he taught for a quarter century until his death. He took the position that "history is the politics of the past, and politics is the history of the present," and his major work, An Essay on the Expansion of Great Britain (1883), was widely welcomed as it analyzed the process of Britain's development into an empire from a causal perspective, taking advantage of the imperialist trend of the time. [Imai Hiroshi] …

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…ケンブリッジ大学に学び，ロンドン大学ラテン語教授を経て，1869年ケンブリッジ大学近代史欽定講座教授に就任，死去するまでの四半世紀間この講座を担当した。〈歴史は過去の政治にして，政治は現在の歴史なり〉とする立場をとり，主著《イギリス膨張史論》(1883)は，イギリスの帝国への発展過程を因果連関から分析したものとして，折からの帝国主義的風潮に乗じて広く歓迎された。【今井 宏】。…

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