Transactions of the Japan Academy

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Volume 53, Issue 1

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On the Publication of the Variorum Edition of James Steuart, An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy (1767)

Noboru KOBAYASHI

1998 Volume 53 Issue 1 Pages 1-25
Published: 1998
Released on J-STAGE: June 22, 2007

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2183/tja1948.53.1

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This is a brief account of the recent publication of the variorum edition of Sir James Steuart, An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy, edited by Andrew Skinner, Noboru Kobayashi and Hiroshi Mizuta.

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“The Declaration of Independence”Reconsidered

What It Meant in 1776

Makoto SAITO

1998 Volume 53 Issue 1 Pages 27-46
Published: 1998
Released on J-STAGE: June 22, 2007

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2183/tja1948.53.27

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Many studies of the Declaration of Independence have approached it from the viewpoint of history of thought, as Carl Becker's masterpiece, The declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas (1922) did. I, while duly admitting the significance of history of thought approach within the context of American history, would like to pay attention to more direct and immediate political and social importance of the Declaration of Independence as a document in which the“causes of separation from the Great Britain”was appealed to the people of American colonies on the historical moment of 1776.

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