David Fieldhouse, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

David Fieldhouse

British historian

Date of Birth: 07-Jun-1925

Date of Death: 28-Oct-2018

Profession: historian, economic historian, historian of the modern age

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About David Fieldhouse

  • David Kenneth Fieldhouse, FBA (7 June 1925 – 28 October 2018) was an English historian of the British Empire who between 1981 and 1992 held the Vere Harmsworth Professorship of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge.
  • Arguably the world's "leading imperial economic historian" he is most well known for his book, Economics and Empire, 1830–1914 (1973), which offered a trenchant account of how political and strategic factors, rather than economic impulses, comprised the primary motors of European imperial expansion. Fieldhouse is a critic of the theories of imperialism put forward in the early 20th century by John A.
  • Hobson and Lenin.
  • He argues that they used superficial arguments and weak evidence.
  • Fieldhouse says that the "obvious driving force of British expansion since 1870" came from explorers, missionaries, engineers, and empire-minded politicians.
  • They had little interest in financial investments.
  • Hobson's approach was to say that faceless financiers manipulated everyone else.
  • "The final determination rests with the financial power." Lenin made the argument that capitalism was in its last stages and had been taken over by monopolists.
  • They were no longer dynamic and sought to maintain profits by even more intensive exploitation of protected markets.
  • Fieldhouse rejects these arguments as unfounded speculation.During the course of his career he held academic posts at the University of Canterbury, Oxford University, and Cambridge University.
  • Upon his retirement from Cambridge in 1992 his former students and colleagues published a festschrift entitled, Managing the Business of Empire: Essays in Honour of David Fieldhouse. Fieldhouse remained an active Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge in later life.
  • He died in October 2018 at the age of 93.

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