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Agenda for the Study of British Imperial Economy, 1850-1950*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

W. K. Hancock
W. K. Hancock
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University of London
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“Imperialism is no word for scholars.” I quote my own printed words of ten years ago. The bewildering changes of content and color of that chameleon word throughout the brief century of its existence are. now being explored by R. F. Koebner of the University of Jerusalem. Here indeed is a fit task for scholars—to take a key word such as imperialism or despotism, to trace the history of its usage and abusage, to fit it into its true context of ideology, propaganda, and political warfare throughout successive historical phases. What a scholar can NOT do with these emotionally reverberant words is to make them reliable instruments of scientific exploration and explanation.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , Summer 1953 , pp. 257 - 273
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1953

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