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"I can think of no previous study which would be of such value to an undergraduate coming to Hobson for the first time, and specialists in the field will find it both informative and stimulating." - D.K. Fieldhouse (Jesus College Cambridge), The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History "This is a first-rate book. Cain has absorbed not only the huge range of Hobson's writings but an even wider range of secondary material. His bibliography alone will be of huge value to students." - D.K. Fieldhouse (Jesus College Cambridge), The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History "... excellent book ... we are given what I think is possibly the most balanced overall analysis of the arguments of
Imperialism in the context of Hobson's intellectual development." - D.K. Fieldhouse (Jesus College Cambridge), The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History "This is a first-rate book by an excellent scholar of British imperialism and of Hobson, which deserves to be studied by students of the history of empire and of the place of liberalism in that history." - Political Studies Review "Cain's study will certainly encourage many historians to re-read Imperialism, and perhaps to dip into Hobson's other writings. For the able undergraduate, the research student and the historian of overseas expansion, Cain's excellent critical analysis and contextualization of Hobson's thinking about empire is required reading." - The Round
Table "A book on Hobson and imperialism written by Peter Cain, not only one of today's foremost imperial historians, but also one with a long-standing interest in Hobson's writings, thus promises much. It is a tribute to Cain that this study, the result of years of mature consideration of Hobson's thought, lives up to its promise." - The Round Table "Peter Cain's account of the complexities and inconsistencies of Hobson's thinking on imperialism is masterly. It is the perceptive outcome of thirty years of study and reflection. It will serve as an authoritative guide to the thought of one of the most curious political economists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, whose writings still retain their ability to provoke us into
thinking more deeply about our world." - History of Economics Review "Cain explores Hobson's responses to Cobden, Ruskin and the radical tradition with considerable insight and subtlety." - Martin Daunton, Times Literary Supplement
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