Ronald Robinson

Ronald Robinson

Ronald Edward Robinson (1920/1921 - June 19, 1999) was a British historian of Africa.

Robinson most influential work was "Africa and the Victorians. The Official Mind of Imperialism" [Robinson, Ronald and Gallagher, John, with Denny, Alice, "Africa and the Victorians. The Official Mind of Imperialism", Londres and Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1981 (2nd paperback edition)]

, co-authored with John Gallagher with the help of Alice Denny and first published in 1961. The same pair also wrote "The Imperialism of Free Trade" in 1953 [Gallagher, John and Robinson, Ronald, “The Imperialism of Free Trade”, The Economic History Review, vol. VI, n. 1, 1953] , a groundbreaking essay among theorists of imperialism. Robinson also edited many other works.

Upon Robinson's retirement from Beit Chair of the History of the British Commonwealth at Oxford University in 1987 a book of essays entitled "Theory and Practice in the History of European Expansion Overseas" was published in his honour.

References

External links

* [http://www.h-net.org/~africa/obituaries/Robinson.html Obituary from Kenneth Wilburn of East Carolina University]
*"R.E. Robinson" obituary in "The Times", June 1999


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