A G Hopkins
Tony Hopkins is Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at Cambridge and Emeritus Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History at the University of Texas in Austin. He holds a PhD from the University of London and honorary doctorates from the Universities of Stirling and Birmingham.
He is Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge and an Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Professor Hopkins's main interests lie in the history of the non- Western world, economic history of Africa, and the history of European imperialism.
He has written extensively on African history, imperial history, and globalization. His publications include: An Economic History of West Africa (1973; 2019), British Imperialism written with P. J. Cain (1993; 3rd ed. 2016), Globalization in World History (2001), Global History: Interactions between the Universal and the Local (2006), American Empire: A Global History (2018), Africa, Empire and World Disorder: Historical Essays (2020) and numerous scholarly articles.
Research Interests
- Western expansion overseas;
- African and ‘Third World’ history;
- Historiography; globalization; development issues
Education
- St Paul’s School, London, 1953-57 University of London, B.A. (History, 1960);
- Ph.D. (1964): ‘An Economic History of Lagos, 1880-1914’
Source: The University of Texas at Austin Department of History
