Norman Etherington. Theories of Imperialism. War, Conquest and Capital.

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

1 – America’s First Capitalist Theory of Capitalist Imperialism

2 – H. Gay lord Wilshire and the First Socialist Theory of Capitalist Imperialism

3 – J. A. Hobson and the Economic Taproot of Imperialism

4 – Hobson’s Study of Imperialism

5 – British Discussion of Imperialism and War on the Eve of World War I – Norman Angel and H.N. Brailsford

6 – Central European Socialists and Imperialism before the First World War

7 – Explaining the German ‘Betrayal’; Luxemburg, Bukharin and Lenin

8 – Assessing the Prospects for Peaceful Capitalism, Thorstein Veblen and Joseph Schumpeter

9 – Concise Exposition of Classic Theories of Imperialism

10 – Theories of Imperialism become ‘Theories of Empire’

11 – The Patriots Fight Back; the Round Table Tradition in Imperial Historiography

12 – Hot War, Cold War and Decolonisation

13 – Sorting out Historical Problems of Imperialism