A. G. Hopkins

Antony "Tony" Gerald Hopkins, (born 21 February 1938), a British historian, is Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge, and an Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College. He was the Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge from 1994-2001. Previously, he was Professor of Economic History at the University of Birmingham from 1977 to 1988, and Professor of History at the University of Geneva from 1988 to 1994. From 2002 to 2013 he held the Walter Prescott Webb Chair of History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he won the University 'Eyes of Texas' Teaching Award, and the College of Liberal Arts Student Council Teaching Award. He holds a B.A. in history from the University of London (1960) and a Ph.D., also from the University of London (1964). He received honorary doctorates from the University of Stirling (D. Univ.) in 1996 and the University of Birmingham (D. Litt.) in 2013. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1996. In 2011, former students and colleagues presented him with a book of essays, edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell, entitled, Africa, Empire and Globalization:Essays in Honor of A. G. Hopkins (Carolina Academic Press, Durham, NC). Hopkins is known for his extensive work on the history of Africa, empires, and globalisation. He has been an editor of both the Journal of African History and the Economic History Review. His principal works include An Economic History of West Africa (1973), and, with Peter Cain, British Imperialism, 1688-2000 (1993), which won the Forkosch Prize awarded by the American Historical Association in 1995 and is considered to be one of the most influential interpretations of British imperial expansion advanced in the last half century. He is currently completing a study of the United States written from the perspective of imperial history. Continue Reading »

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