Ronald Robinson
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Ronald Edward Robinson (1920/1921 - June 19, 1999) was a British historian of Africa.
Robinson most influential work was Africa and the Victorians. The Official Mind of Imperialism[1], co-authored with John Gallagher with the help of Alice Denny and first published in 1961. The same pair also wrote "The Imperialism of Free Trade" in 1953[2], a pathbreaking essay among theorists of imperialism. Robinson also edited many other works.
Upon Robinson's retirement from Beit Chair of the History of the British Commonwealth at Oxford University in 1987 a book of essays entitled Theory and Practice in the History of European Expansion Overseas was published in his honour.
[edit] References
- ^ Robinson, Ronald and Gallagher, John, with Denny, Alice, Africa and the Victorians. The Official Mind of Imperialism, Londres and Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1981 (2nd paperback edition)
- ^ Gallagher, John and Robinson, Ronald, “The Imperialism of Free Trade”, The Economic History Review, vol. VI, n. 1, 1953
[edit] External links
- Obituary from Kenneth Wilburn of East Carolina University
- R.E. Robinson obituary in The Times, June 1999
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