Hobson's "Imperialism"
Reading English economist
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Reading English economist John A. Hobson's critique of imperialism is to encotnter a deep-thinking realist musing on its causes, rationales, and brutality with considerable insight and eloquence. It is no criticism of Hobson to say that he is both brilliant and a creature of his times. There was no "people's history" then, no statistics, no vignettes of daily life, no discussion even of personalities, as is the current fashion of historical writing. His lofty generalities evoke Thucydides more than William Shirer. He starts by admitting that imperialism can't be defined precisely, that the concepts of history are not as definite and literal as those of the physical sciences. He goes on to add that students of modern politics should be scrupulously careful to distinguish the three elements of which he thinks imperial
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Approximate Word count = 557
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page)
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