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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2011
      February 2011
      ISBN:
      9780511792076
      9781108025140
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511792076
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 418 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Population History, British History after 1450, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, British History after 1450, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
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    J. A. Hobson (1858–1940) was an English economist and early socialist, whose writings on capitalism and industrialism influenced Lenin and Trotsky, and were highly regarded by John Maynard Keynes. Imperialism, published in 1902, is considered his most important work. Employed as a war correspondent by the Manchester Guardian to report on the Second Boer War, he became convinced that imperial expansion was driven by the desire to find new markets and investment opportunities, resulting in capitalistic exploitation of the colonies. He argued that imperial policies were a fundamental cause of international conflict, as greed led to aggression and militarism. While modern critics have seen weaknesses in his arguments, such as his failure to examine the development of the British Empire out of early private trading enterprises, Hobson was a very influential and prolific writer and social theorist, who helped shape British welfare policy in the twentieth century.

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