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SATSUMA Shinsuke

Department / Course College of Letters International Studies and English Communication Program

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Letters

Academic background
1.		│ University of Exeter PhD (History)
2.	2002/04～2004/03	Master Course │ Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences │ Waseda University │ Completed
3.	～2002/03	School of Letters, Arts and Sciences I │ Waseda University │ Graduated

Business career
1.	2025/04 ～	Professor │ College of Letters International Studies and English Communication Program │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2021/04 ～ 2025/03	Associate Professor │ College of Letters International Studies and English Communication Program │ Ritsumeikan University
3.	2020/04 ～ 2021/03	Associate Professor │ Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences │ Hiroshima University
4.	2015/04 ～ 2020/03	Associate Professor │ Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences/Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences │ Hiroshima University
5.	2019/10 ～	│ │ National Museum of Ethnology
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Research activities
1.		International Maritime Economic History Association
2.		THE HISTORICAL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF JAPAN
3.		日本西洋史学会 (Japanese name only)
4.		THE JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN HISTORY
5.		THE SOCIETY OF HIROSHIMA FOR HISTORICAL STUDIES

Present specialized field
History of Europe and America (Keyword：Maritime History,Naval History,Atlantic History,Political History,American history,British History)

Books
1.	2013/09	Britain and Colonial Maritime War in the Early Eighteenth Century: Silver, Seapower and the Atlantic
2.	2018/11	Kaizoku no Daieiteikoku (British 'Piratical' Empire) [in Japanese]
3.	2018/03	'Plunder and Free Trade: British Privateering and Its Abolition in 1856 in Global Perspective' in Atsushi Ota (ed.), In the Name of the Battle against Piracy
4.	2017/07	‘“Free trade” or conquest: analysis of British plans for Spanish American trade and settlement in the early eighteenth century’ in Keiko Kawawake and Toshiaki Tamaki (eds.), Shogyo to Ibunka no Sessyoku [in Japanese]
5.	2015/11	'Privateering and Smuggling: Crown, Parliament and Reform in the Prize System during the Nine Years War' in Yasushi Aoki (ed.), Members, Constituencies and Interests: Studies in Parliamentary History of Early Modern and Modern Britain [in Japanese]
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Papers
1.	2024/02	Severing the Sinews of the Spanish Empire: British Naval Policy and Operations Regarding the Silver Fleets during the War of Jenkins’ Ear, 1737–1740 │ The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History │ 52 (1),pp.45-74
2.	2023/08	‘Book Review: Robert Gaudi, The War of Jenkins’ Ear: The Forgotten Struggle for North and South America, 1739–1742’’ │ International Journal of Maritime History │ 35 (3),pp.518-520
3.	2015/03	'Global Conflicts, Navy and Economy: Britain's Maritime War Policy and Debates, 1689-1763' │ Japanese Journal of European Studies │ 3,pp.133-149
4.	2013/10	Sea, Plunder and Law: Development of the System Regulating Privateering and its Expansion in the Early Modern Atlantic World │ Rekishigaku Kenkyu (Journal of Historical Studies) │ ,pp.168-178
5.	2013/06	Politicians, Merchants, and Colonial Maritime War: The Political and Economic Background of the American Act of 1708 │ PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY │ 32 (2),pp.317-336
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2025/06/13	'The Study of British Maritime History in Japan: A Historiographical Survey'
2.	2022/06/30	The British Fiscal-Military State and its Naval Policy: British Naval Operations Regarding the Spanish Silver Fleets During the War of Jenkins’ Ear, 1737–1740
3.	2020/01/11	Comments on Professor David Armitage’s Paper, ‘World History as Oceanic History’
4.	2018/10	The South Sea Company and British Policy towards Spanish America in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century
5.	2016/07	The Political Debate over the War of Jenkins’ Ear Re-examined
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Winning science prize
1.	2014/11	Waseda University Waseda Research Award (High-Impact Publication)

Competitive grants, etc. (exc. KAKENHI)
1.	2008 ～ 2008	Royal Historical Society Postgraduate Research Funding - Research within the UK │ Research by External Competitive Fund
2.	2006/10 ～ 2009/09	University of Exeter Exeter Research Scholarship │ Research by External Competitive Fund

Subject
1.	Culture and History of English-Speaking Regions