A. G. Hopkins

Antony Gerald Hopkins, FBA (born 21 February 1938) is a British historian specialising in the economic history of Africa, European colonialism, and globalisation.

[3][4] He then completed a PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies (1964), with a thesis entitled "An Economic History of Lagos, 1880–1914".

From 2002 to 2013 he held the Walter Prescott Webb Chair of History at the University of Texas at Austin,[3] where he won the University 'Eyes of Texas' Teaching Award, and the College of Liberal Arts Student Council Teaching Award.

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 the British Empire proposed in the last half century.

His most recent work is a study of the United States from an imperial perspective, entitled American Empire: A Global History (2018).