A. G. Hopkins

A. G. Hopkins

Antony "Tony" G. Hopkins, FBA (born 21 February 1938) is a distinguished British historian at the University of Texas, where he holds the Walter Prescott Webb Professorship of History and Ideas. Hopkins was formerly the Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge and is currently an Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He had previously taught at the University of Birmingham from 1964 to 1988 and at the University of Geneva, from 1988 to 1994. Hopkins earned his bachelor's degree from the University of London in 1960 and his Ph.D., also from the University of London, in 1964. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Stirling in 1996. Hopkins is known mainly for his extensive work on African and imperial history, and, to a lesser extent, for his recent contributions to the history of globalization. He has been an editor for 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 (2001), which won the Forkosch Prize of the American Historical Association and is considered by many to be the most influential interpretation of British expansion offered in the last half century. Hopkins is currently writing a study of American imperialism.