Professor Antony Hopkins FBA

African history; European expansion overseas; History of the United States; Globalization; Development issues
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1996
Subjects
History

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

Africa, Empire and World Disorder: Historical Essays

A. G. Hopkins - Published in 2020 by Routledge

An Economic History of West Africa

A. G. Hopkins - Published in 2019 by Routledge

Second edition

American Empire: A Global History

A. G. Hopkins - Published in 2018 by Princeton University Press

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

First edition 1993; Second edition 2001; Third edition 2016

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Professor Eugene Rogan FBA

The modern history of the Middle East and North Africa from the late Ottoman era to the present day

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Professor Patricia Clavin FBA

The international and transnational history of the 20th and 21st centuries; internationalism and global organisations, notably the League of Nations; European and US foreign policies, reappraising notions of security; the Great Depression

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Professor Marianne Elliott FBA

History, Ireland, France, Religion and Conflict

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