Professor Antony Hopkins FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1996
- Subjects
- History
- Sections
- Modern History from 1850
- Website
- https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/
Summary
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 has written extensively on African history, imperial history, and globalisation. 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.
Current post
Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, University of Cambridge; Emeritus Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge
Past appointments
University of Texas at Austin Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History
2002 - 2013
University of Cambridge Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History
1994 - 2002
The Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva Professor of International History
1988 - 1994
University of Birmingham Assistant Lecturer; Lecturer; Reader; Professor of Economic History,
1963 - 1988
Publications
Globalization in World History
Edited by A.G. Hopkins - Published in 2002 by Pimlico
British Imperialism, 1688-2015
P.J Cain and A.G Hopkins - Published by Routledge
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Robert A. Bickers FBA
The history of 19th and 20th century colonialism and global history, and in particular of the British empire and its relations with China and the history of Shanghai (1843-1950s) and Hong Kong; modern China, photography
