"By 1910-14, Hobson had drifted far from the arguments of Imperialism: A Study and was now writing of imperialism as a…"

"In 1938 and at the age of eighty, Hobson decided to republish Imperialism: A Study. By the late 1930s, public opinion…"

"However, in that autobiography Hobson did confess that he now thought that the emphasis on economic causation in Impe…"

"He was also extraordinarily sensitive to the ways that imperialists could cloak essentially materialist concerns in t…"

"He came back to England convinced that Rhodes and his fellow mining capitalists had engineered the war in order to re…"

"The Chinese economy would be brutally transformed into the mightiest manufacturing nation based on western capital an…"

"In tropical Africa, on the other hand, Hobson talked of 'lower races' who could only progress under western leadership"

"Hasdrubal had led his close order cavalry in a devastatingly brutal charge against the Roman right wing, shattering a…"

"Most battles from the Ancient World are now all but forgotten, for military as well as civil education has ceased to …"

"It was very difficult to disable an opponent with a single blow; either a heavy strike to the head, a massive thrust …"