Professor Antony Hopkins

Tony Hopkins is Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at Cambridge and an Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of London, honorary doctorates from the Universities of Stirling and Birmingham, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. He has written extensively on African history, imperial history, U.S. 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.