A. G. Hopkins is Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge and former Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include Global History, Globalization in World History, and British Imperialism, 1688-2015.
In this immense, feisty, delightfully pugilistic book, one can't help but appreciate [Hopkins's] intellectual fireworks, his depth of reading, and his conviction that history sits as the exacting judge of even emperors. -Joseph Fronczak, Jacobin Sweeping, ambitious and hugely illuminating . . . surely the definitive account of perhaps the most underestimated 'European' empire of all. -Dominic Sandbrook, BBC History Magazine A grand history that combines great ambition, immense learning, and illuminating insights. . . . No one who studies modern empires and America's place among them can ignore this book. -Dane Kennedy, H-Diplo Roundtable Review Hopkins has rendered the topic of American empire not merely interesting but truly compelling again. -David Armitage, Times Literary Supplement One of BBC History Magazine's Books of the Year Hopkins has written a stunning book. We are immensely in his debt for restoring great narrative history to the top shelf in a book that ranges in its erudition from a Mediaeval Middle Eastern historian to Captain America to make its points. -Lloyd Gardner, H-Diplo Roundtable Review