Is imperial history overdue a comeback? with historian A.G. Hopkins | Our Long Walk Podcast

Описание: In a rapidly changing world marked by trade wars, shifting alliances, and resurgent nationalism, what can history teach us about the future of globalisation? Is America’s retreat from global leadership inevitable, and what might Britain’s past decline reveal about the potential paths ahead?

In the first episode of Season 2 of the Our Long Walk Podcast, Jonathan Schoots and Johan Fourie talk to Tony Hopkins, Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at Cambridge University, about gentlemanly capitalism, globalisation, and the rise and fall of empires, among other topics.

Some of Tony’s work:
The Land Where Nothing Works: How Britain Lost the Plot (2024): https://press.princeton.edu/books/har...
Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931 https://press.princeton.edu/books/har...
American Empire: A Global History: https://press.princeton.edu/books/pap...

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