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  • Category: Books (History)
  • Author:  Cain, Peter
  • Author:  Cain, Peter
  • ISBN-10:  019820390X
  • ISBN-10:  019820390X
  • ISBN-13:  9780198203902
  • ISBN-13:  9780198203902
  • Publisher:  Oxford University Press
  • Publisher:  Oxford University Press
  • Pages:  330
  • Pages:  330
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-Jul-2002
  • Pub Date:  01-Jul-2002
  • SKU:  019820390X-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  019820390X-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 100798532
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The year 2002 sees the centenary of J.A. Hobson's Imperialism: A Study, the most influential critique of British imperial expansion ever written. Peter Cain marks the occasion by evaluating, for the first time, Hobson's writings on imperialism from his days as a journalist in London to his death in 1940. The early chapters chart Hobson's progress from complacent imperialist in the 1880s to radical critic of empire by 1898. This is followed by an account of the origins of Imperialism and a close analysis of the text in the context of contemporary debates. Two chapters cover Hobson's later writings, showing their richness and variety, and analysing his decision to republish Imperialism in 1938. The author discusses the reception of Imperialism and its emergence as a 'classic' by the late 1930s and ends with a detailed discussion of the relevance of the arguments of Imperialism to present-day historians.

1. Introduction
2. Becoming a New Liberal 1887-1898
`n 3Becoming an Anti-Imperialist 1887-98
4. The Economics of Imperialism 1899-1902
5. Imperialism. A Study: Parasitism and Industry
6. Dilemmas of a New Liberal: Free Trade, Foreign Investment and Imperialism 1903-1914
7. Late Variations on a Famous Theme 1914-1938
8. Hobson Lives? Finance, Finance Capital and British Imperialsm 1870-1914

I strongly recommend that every serious economic historian, any politician interested in the current state of international affairs, and a substantial fraction of interested laymen read this well crafted study of a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century scholor. --Albion



Peter Cainis a Professor of History at Sheffield Hallam University.
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