The Influence of Second Boer War on John A. Hobson’s Theory of Imperialism
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Tseng, Yuan-Chih
Abstract
This thesis aimed to illustrates how John Atkinson Hobson (1858-1940)’s experience in the Second South African War (also noted as the Second Boer War) and his anti-Boer War work had influenced Imperialism: A Study. Hobson’s most famous work, Imperialism: A Study, analyzes the capitalistic motive behind imperialistic expansion of western advanced nations, and criticizes the damage that imperialism has brought upon the oppressed colonies and the empire itself. Since Imperialism was published first in 1902, when the Second Boer War ended, many of the arguments in Imperialism could still be traced back to John A. Hobson’s own anti-Boer War work, like The War in South Africa: Its Causes and Effects (1900) and The Psychology of Jingoism (1901). Hobson’s demonstration of the capitalistic forces behind the imperialistic expansion in Imperialism is following his discourse on the relation between South African capitalists, British government and British media in the other two books The War in South Africa and The Psychology of Jingoism. This implies Hobson’s experience and investigation in South Africa during the Boer War, has had greatly affected the formation of his theory on imperialism and capitalism. By comparing Hobson’s works on the Boer War and Imperialism, we can acquire a better understanding of the historical context of Hobson’s theory of imperialism and the transformation of liberalism in late nineteenth century.
Subjects
Imperialism
John A. Hobson
Second Boer War
New Liberalism
Capitalism
Jingoism
British Imperial History
Type
thesis
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