This volume brings together important articles from the Cambridge historian A. G. Hopkins and reflect the enlargement and evolution of historical studies during the last half century. The essays cover four of the principal historiographical developments of the period: the extraordinary revolution that has led to the writing of non-Western indigenous history; the revitalization of new types of imperial history; the now ubiquitous engagement with global history, including a reinterpretation of American Empire, and the current revival of economic history after several decades of neglect.

A. G. Hopkins is a British historian and currently Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge. He has written extensively on the economic history of Africa, European colonialism, American Empire and globalization.