A S Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 419222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A S Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | A S |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7654-7497 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 363 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The “Big Survey”: Decolonisation, Development and the First Wave of NGO Expansion in Africa After 1945
This article sheds new light on NGO activity across Africa after the Second World War and the vital yet overlooked role played by non-state actors in the process of decolonisation. The International Council of Voluntary Agencies’ ‘Repertory of Africa’s NGOs’ (1968), analysed here for the first time, yields unprecedented insights into the ‘first wave’ of NGO expansion as an important aspect of the history of twentieth century international relatio…
Power versus Leadership
European power in the 21st century is not what it was in the 20th century. The rules‐based liberal international order that Europe helped to construct after the Second World War is under threat, and arguably in decline. As this ‘order’ diminishes, so too does Europe’s ability to influence world events. While Europe will never command either the military or economic hard and ‘sharp’ power of the United States or China, it remains an important inte…
Canada, human rights, and the future of the liberal international order
Human rights—specifically international human rights law—have been central to the success of the liberal international order. But since the founding of the United Nations (UN), Canada has had a complicated relationship with international human rights law. This article provides a survey of sixty years of Canadian human rights diplomacy at the UN Commission on Human Rights, from its establishment in 1946 to its dissolution in 2006. During this peri…
Restoring hope where all hope was lost”: Nelson Mandela, the ICRC and the protection of political detainees in apartheid South Africa
Amidst the violent upheavals of the end of empire and the Cold War, international organizations developed a basic framework for holding State and non-State armed groups to account for their actions when taking prisoners. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) placed itself at the very centre of these developments, making detention visiting a cornerstone of its work. Nowhere was this growing preoccupation with the problem of protectin…
Humanitarian principles put to the test: Challenges to humanitarian action during decolonization
This article examines the meaning and purpose of the Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement during and after decolonization. This was a period when the character of conflict experienced far-reaching changes, when the limitations of international humanitarian law were sharply exposed, and when humanitarian organizations of all kinds – the International Committee of the Red Cross included – redefined their missions and ma…
The Empire Strikes Back?: The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century
`The Empire Strikes Back' will inject the empire back into the domestic history of modern Britain. In the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth century, Britain's empire was so large that it was truly the global superpower. Much of Africa, Asia and America had been subsumed. Britannia's tentacles had stretched both wide and deep. Culture, Religion, Health, Sexuality, Law and Order were all impacted in the dominated countries. `The Empi…
Tehran 1968 and Reform of the UN Human Rights System
In 1967, several countries in the West briefly contemplated proposing a series of bold reform initiatives at the First World Conference on Human Rights in Tehran, Iran. The primary purposes of the proposals, which included establishing the post of the Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights and even replacing the UN Human Rights Commission with a new Human Rights Council, were to strengthen the UN's human rights system. But they were al…
Empire and Globalisation: From ‘High Imperialism’ to Decolonisation
Reviewing the expansion and ultimate demise of the British and French empires, this article takes a long view of globalisation as an integral part of Europe's recent imperial past.The authors' argument is that these empires were not simply a global phenomenon.Rather, the processes that built and destroyed them were more actively 'globalising'.In this context, they argue that the rise and fall of the two pre-eminent overseas empires had several gl…
European Empires and the People: Popular Responses to Imperialism in France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy, ed. John MacKenzie
In the Afterword to this volume, Matthew Stanard quotes the French historian, and co-founder of the Annales School, Marc Bloch, who once shrewdly observed: ‘there is no true understanding without a certain range of comparison; provided, of course, that the comparison is based upon differing and, at the same time, related realities’ (p. 230). The preceding essays make a convincing case for the comparative study of how people in Europe encountered …
Intergovernmentalists in the Commission: Foxes in the Henhouse
Contrary to the dominant view in the scholarly literature on European institutions, where the European Commission is generally described as a unitary actor whose acts are primarily influenced by a political agenda and/or considerations of self-interest, this article argues that a variety of opinions coexist within the Commission staff. Based on the largest attitudinal survey ever conducted on Commission officials, it documents the existence of a …
Empire and Globalisation: Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.1850–1914
Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a perspective on the relationship between empire and globalisation. It shows how distinct structures of economic opportunity developed around the people who settled across a wider British World through the co-ethnic networks they created. Yet these networks could also limit and distort economic growth. The powerful appeal of ethnic identification often …
Transnational Christian Charity: The Canadian Council of Churches, the World Council of Churches, and the Hungarian Refugee Crisis, 1956–1957
(2008). Transnational Christian Charity: The Canadian Council of Churches, the World Council of Churches, and the Hungarian Refugee Crisis, 1956–1957. American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 295-316
Beyond Expression: Amnesty International's Decision to Oppose Capital Punishment, 1973
Amnesty International's (AI) decision in 1973 to adopt unconditional opposition to capital punishment into its mandate marked a watershed moment for both the international abolitionist movement generally, and Amnesty International specifically. But it was not an easy decision for the organization to take. Internally, there were some within the organization who opposed broadening the mandate beyond its existing work on Prisoners of Conscience, fea…
Afterword: Informal Empire: Past, Present and Future
The Power and Privileges of Association: Co-Ethnic Networks and the Economic Life of the British Imperial World
(2006). The Power and Privileges of Association: Co-Ethnic Networks and the Economic Life of the British Imperial World. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 43-59
The Global and Local: Explaining Migrant Remittance Flows in the English-Speaking World, 1880–1914
This article uses money order data to examine the determinants of British migrant remittances prior to 1914. Using panel data and cointegration analysis, it provides evidence of four distinct types of remittance behavior, lending support to Lucas and Stark's theory that remittances are driven by an implicit contract between remitter and remittee. The relative strengths of these different forms of remittance varied across the English-speaking worl…
Lines of credit, debts of obligation: Migrant remittances to Britain, c.1875-19131
Britain of the nineteenth century was a net recipient of migrant remittances. Surprisingly little, however, is known about the flow of such funds to the UK. This article addresses this hiatus in several ways. First, it provides an account of the main mechanisms by which remittances were transferred in this period. Second, it presents new estimates of the volume of remittances flowing to Britain between 1875 and 1913, and, in doing so, offers a co…
Modernity and Modernization
A soft touch? British industry, empire markets, and the self‐governing dominions, c.1870–1914
The belief that Britain's empire markets were soft is well entrenched in the literature. It is, however, a belief that has been largely untested. Indeed, the literature does not even offer an explicit definition of softness. This article attempts to fill this gap by discussing the meaning of the term and then posing the question whether between 1870 and 1914 Britain's fastest growing markets—Australasia and Canada—can in fact reasonably be labell…
Publicity, Philanthropy and Commemoration: British Society and the War
When, in 1902, J. A. Hobson pointed to the perils of the 'new' imperialism, his thinking was heavily influenced by the recent experience of the South African War.2 Hobson's argument about the causes of the war — 'fought to place a small international oligarchy of mine-owners and speculators in power at Pretoria' — left him with a lot of explaining to do. If the British taxpayer stood to gain little from military intervention in the Transvaal and …
Imperial Britain: The Empire in British Politics, c. 1880-1932
Imperial languages, identities and beliefs mobilizing imperialists propagating imperialism imperial trade - tariff reform imperial security - naval supremacy and defence planning populating the empire - overseas migration World War I and its imperial aftermath
The Language of Imperialism and the Meanings of Empire: Imperial Discourse in British Politics, 1895–1914
The forthcoming General Election will turn, we are told, mainly on the popularity of Imperialism. If this be so, it is important that voters should make up their minds what Imperialism means. (George Bernard Shaw) Thus wrote George Bernard Shaw on behalf of the Fabian Society in October 1900. Shaw recognized what many historians have subsequently failed to see: the meaning of imperialism inside British politics was not fixed. Rather, the terms “e…
Tariff Reform: An Imperial Strategy, 1903–1913
Historians of the Edwardian tariff reform movement have disagreed about its aims. This article examines the motivations of the leadership of the Tariff Reform League, which was by far the most influential organization in the tariff lobby. It argues that the League's leaders were more empire-minded than often allowed, and that it was the preferential tariff which they were most determined to promulgate and defend. Indeed, attempts by the Balfourit…
Informal Empire? An Exploration in the History of Anglo-Argentine Relations, 1810-1914
Introduction: the genesis of 'informal empire'In 1953 John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson published an article entitled 'The Imperialism of Free Trade', which has since become a landmark in the study of nineteenth-century British imperialism. Seeking to overturn long-cherished notions of a mid-Victorian 'indifference' and a late-Victorian 'enthusiasm' for empire, it proposed a basic continuity of policy whereby British industrialisation caused an …
The Nato consensus
The Empire Strikes Back?: The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century
`The Empire Strikes Back' will inject the empire back into the domestic history of modern Britain. In the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth century, Britain's empire was so large that it was truly the global superpower. Much of Africa, Asia and America had been subsumed. Britannia's tentacles had stretched both wide and deep. Culture, Religion, Health, Sexuality, Law and Order were all impacted in the dominated countries. `The Empi…
Empire and Globalisation: Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.1850–1914
Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a perspective on the relationship between empire and globalisation. It shows how distinct structures of economic opportunity developed around the people who settled across a wider British World through the co-ethnic networks they created. Yet these networks could also limit and distort economic growth. The powerful appeal of ethnic identification often …
The Language of Imperialism and the Meanings of Empire: Imperial Discourse in British Politics, 1895–1914
The forthcoming General Election will turn, we are told, mainly on the popularity of Imperialism. If this be so, it is important that voters should make up their minds what Imperialism means. (George Bernard Shaw) Thus wrote George Bernard Shaw on behalf of the Fabian Society in October 1900. Shaw recognized what many historians have subsequently failed to see: the meaning of imperialism inside British politics was not fixed. Rather, the terms “e…
Tariff Reform: An Imperial Strategy, 1903–1913
Historians of the Edwardian tariff reform movement have disagreed about its aims. This article examines the motivations of the leadership of the Tariff Reform League, which was by far the most influential organization in the tariff lobby. It argues that the League's leaders were more empire-minded than often allowed, and that it was the preferential tariff which they were most determined to promulgate and defend. Indeed, attempts by the Balfourit…
Informal Empire? An Exploration in the History of Anglo-Argentine Relations, 1810-1914
Introduction: the genesis of 'informal empire'In 1953 John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson published an article entitled 'The Imperialism of Free Trade', which has since become a landmark in the study of nineteenth-century British imperialism. Seeking to overturn long-cherished notions of a mid-Victorian 'indifference' and a late-Victorian 'enthusiasm' for empire, it proposed a basic continuity of policy whereby British industrialisation caused an …
Empire and Globalisation: From ‘High Imperialism’ to Decolonisation
Reviewing the expansion and ultimate demise of the British and French empires, this article takes a long view of globalisation as an integral part of Europe's recent imperial past.The authors' argument is that these empires were not simply a global phenomenon.Rather, the processes that built and destroyed them were more actively 'globalising'.In this context, they argue that the rise and fall of the two pre-eminent overseas empires had several gl…
A soft touch? British industry, empire markets, and the self‐governing dominions, c.1870–1914
The belief that Britain's empire markets were soft is well entrenched in the literature. It is, however, a belief that has been largely untested. Indeed, the literature does not even offer an explicit definition of softness. This article attempts to fill this gap by discussing the meaning of the term and then posing the question whether between 1870 and 1914 Britain's fastest growing markets—Australasia and Canada—can in fact reasonably be labell…
The Global and Local: Explaining Migrant Remittance Flows in the English-Speaking World, 1880–1914
This article uses money order data to examine the determinants of British migrant remittances prior to 1914. Using panel data and cointegration analysis, it provides evidence of four distinct types of remittance behavior, lending support to Lucas and Stark's theory that remittances are driven by an implicit contract between remitter and remittee. The relative strengths of these different forms of remittance varied across the English-speaking worl…
Afterword: Informal Empire: Past, Present and Future
Lines of credit, debts of obligation: Migrant remittances to Britain, c.1875-19131
Britain of the nineteenth century was a net recipient of migrant remittances. Surprisingly little, however, is known about the flow of such funds to the UK. This article addresses this hiatus in several ways. First, it provides an account of the main mechanisms by which remittances were transferred in this period. Second, it presents new estimates of the volume of remittances flowing to Britain between 1875 and 1913, and, in doing so, offers a co…
Humanitarian principles put to the test: Challenges to humanitarian action during decolonization
This article examines the meaning and purpose of the Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement during and after decolonization. This was a period when the character of conflict experienced far-reaching changes, when the limitations of international humanitarian law were sharply exposed, and when humanitarian organizations of all kinds – the International Committee of the Red Cross included – redefined their missions and ma…
Intergovernmentalists in the Commission: Foxes in the Henhouse
Contrary to the dominant view in the scholarly literature on European institutions, where the European Commission is generally described as a unitary actor whose acts are primarily influenced by a political agenda and/or considerations of self-interest, this article argues that a variety of opinions coexist within the Commission staff. Based on the largest attitudinal survey ever conducted on Commission officials, it documents the existence of a …
Beyond Expression: Amnesty International's Decision to Oppose Capital Punishment, 1973
Amnesty International's (AI) decision in 1973 to adopt unconditional opposition to capital punishment into its mandate marked a watershed moment for both the international abolitionist movement generally, and Amnesty International specifically. But it was not an easy decision for the organization to take. Internally, there were some within the organization who opposed broadening the mandate beyond its existing work on Prisoners of Conscience, fea…
The “Big Survey”: Decolonisation, Development and the First Wave of NGO Expansion in Africa After 1945
This article sheds new light on NGO activity across Africa after the Second World War and the vital yet overlooked role played by non-state actors in the process of decolonisation. The International Council of Voluntary Agencies’ ‘Repertory of Africa’s NGOs’ (1968), analysed here for the first time, yields unprecedented insights into the ‘first wave’ of NGO expansion as an important aspect of the history of twentieth century international relatio…
Tehran 1968 and Reform of the UN Human Rights System
In 1967, several countries in the West briefly contemplated proposing a series of bold reform initiatives at the First World Conference on Human Rights in Tehran, Iran. The primary purposes of the proposals, which included establishing the post of the Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights and even replacing the UN Human Rights Commission with a new Human Rights Council, were to strengthen the UN's human rights system. But they were al…
The Nato consensus
Informal Empire? An Exploration in the History of Anglo-Argentine Relations, 1810-1914
Introduction: the genesis of 'informal empire'In 1953 John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson published an article entitled 'The Imperialism of Free Trade', which has since become a landmark in the study of nineteenth-century British imperialism. Seeking to overturn long-cherished notions of a mid-Victorian 'indifference' and a late-Victorian 'enthusiasm' for empire, it proposed a basic continuity of policy whereby British industrialisation caused an …
The Language of Imperialism and the Meanings of Empire: Imperial Discourse in British Politics, 1895–1914
The forthcoming General Election will turn, we are told, mainly on the popularity of Imperialism. If this be so, it is important that voters should make up their minds what Imperialism means. (George Bernard Shaw) Thus wrote George Bernard Shaw on behalf of the Fabian Society in October 1900. Shaw recognized what many historians have subsequently failed to see: the meaning of imperialism inside British politics was not fixed. Rather, the terms “e…
Tariff Reform: An Imperial Strategy, 1903–1913
Historians of the Edwardian tariff reform movement have disagreed about its aims. This article examines the motivations of the leadership of the Tariff Reform League, which was by far the most influential organization in the tariff lobby. It argues that the League's leaders were more empire-minded than often allowed, and that it was the preferential tariff which they were most determined to promulgate and defend. Indeed, attempts by the Balfourit…
Imperial Britain: The Empire in British Politics, c. 1880-1932
Imperial languages, identities and beliefs mobilizing imperialists propagating imperialism imperial trade - tariff reform imperial security - naval supremacy and defence planning populating the empire - overseas migration World War I and its imperial aftermath
Publicity, Philanthropy and Commemoration: British Society and the War
When, in 1902, J. A. Hobson pointed to the perils of the 'new' imperialism, his thinking was heavily influenced by the recent experience of the South African War.2 Hobson's argument about the causes of the war — 'fought to place a small international oligarchy of mine-owners and speculators in power at Pretoria' — left him with a lot of explaining to do. If the British taxpayer stood to gain little from military intervention in the Transvaal and …
A soft touch? British industry, empire markets, and the self‐governing dominions, c.1870–1914
The belief that Britain's empire markets were soft is well entrenched in the literature. It is, however, a belief that has been largely untested. Indeed, the literature does not even offer an explicit definition of softness. This article attempts to fill this gap by discussing the meaning of the term and then posing the question whether between 1870 and 1914 Britain's fastest growing markets—Australasia and Canada—can in fact reasonably be labell…
Modernity and Modernization
The Power and Privileges of Association: Co-Ethnic Networks and the Economic Life of the British Imperial World
(2006). The Power and Privileges of Association: Co-Ethnic Networks and the Economic Life of the British Imperial World. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 43-59
The Global and Local: Explaining Migrant Remittance Flows in the English-Speaking World, 1880–1914
This article uses money order data to examine the determinants of British migrant remittances prior to 1914. Using panel data and cointegration analysis, it provides evidence of four distinct types of remittance behavior, lending support to Lucas and Stark's theory that remittances are driven by an implicit contract between remitter and remittee. The relative strengths of these different forms of remittance varied across the English-speaking worl…
Lines of credit, debts of obligation: Migrant remittances to Britain, c.1875-19131
Britain of the nineteenth century was a net recipient of migrant remittances. Surprisingly little, however, is known about the flow of such funds to the UK. This article addresses this hiatus in several ways. First, it provides an account of the main mechanisms by which remittances were transferred in this period. Second, it presents new estimates of the volume of remittances flowing to Britain between 1875 and 1913, and, in doing so, offers a co…
Transnational Christian Charity: The Canadian Council of Churches, the World Council of Churches, and the Hungarian Refugee Crisis, 1956–1957
(2008). Transnational Christian Charity: The Canadian Council of Churches, the World Council of Churches, and the Hungarian Refugee Crisis, 1956–1957. American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 295-316
Beyond Expression: Amnesty International's Decision to Oppose Capital Punishment, 1973
Amnesty International's (AI) decision in 1973 to adopt unconditional opposition to capital punishment into its mandate marked a watershed moment for both the international abolitionist movement generally, and Amnesty International specifically. But it was not an easy decision for the organization to take. Internally, there were some within the organization who opposed broadening the mandate beyond its existing work on Prisoners of Conscience, fea…
Afterword: Informal Empire: Past, Present and Future
Empire and Globalisation: Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.1850–1914
Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a perspective on the relationship between empire and globalisation. It shows how distinct structures of economic opportunity developed around the people who settled across a wider British World through the co-ethnic networks they created. Yet these networks could also limit and distort economic growth. The powerful appeal of ethnic identification often …
Intergovernmentalists in the Commission: Foxes in the Henhouse
Contrary to the dominant view in the scholarly literature on European institutions, where the European Commission is generally described as a unitary actor whose acts are primarily influenced by a political agenda and/or considerations of self-interest, this article argues that a variety of opinions coexist within the Commission staff. Based on the largest attitudinal survey ever conducted on Commission officials, it documents the existence of a …
Empire and Globalisation: From ‘High Imperialism’ to Decolonisation
Reviewing the expansion and ultimate demise of the British and French empires, this article takes a long view of globalisation as an integral part of Europe's recent imperial past.The authors' argument is that these empires were not simply a global phenomenon.Rather, the processes that built and destroyed them were more actively 'globalising'.In this context, they argue that the rise and fall of the two pre-eminent overseas empires had several gl…
European Empires and the People: Popular Responses to Imperialism in France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy, ed. John MacKenzie
In the Afterword to this volume, Matthew Stanard quotes the French historian, and co-founder of the Annales School, Marc Bloch, who once shrewdly observed: ‘there is no true understanding without a certain range of comparison; provided, of course, that the comparison is based upon differing and, at the same time, related realities’ (p. 230). The preceding essays make a convincing case for the comparative study of how people in Europe encountered …
The Empire Strikes Back?: The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century
`The Empire Strikes Back' will inject the empire back into the domestic history of modern Britain. In the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth century, Britain's empire was so large that it was truly the global superpower. Much of Africa, Asia and America had been subsumed. Britannia's tentacles had stretched both wide and deep. Culture, Religion, Health, Sexuality, Law and Order were all impacted in the dominated countries. `The Empi…
Tehran 1968 and Reform of the UN Human Rights System
In 1967, several countries in the West briefly contemplated proposing a series of bold reform initiatives at the First World Conference on Human Rights in Tehran, Iran. The primary purposes of the proposals, which included establishing the post of the Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights and even replacing the UN Human Rights Commission with a new Human Rights Council, were to strengthen the UN's human rights system. But they were al…
Humanitarian principles put to the test: Challenges to humanitarian action during decolonization
This article examines the meaning and purpose of the Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement during and after decolonization. This was a period when the character of conflict experienced far-reaching changes, when the limitations of international humanitarian law were sharply exposed, and when humanitarian organizations of all kinds – the International Committee of the Red Cross included – redefined their missions and ma…
Restoring hope where all hope was lost”: Nelson Mandela, the ICRC and the protection of political detainees in apartheid South Africa
Amidst the violent upheavals of the end of empire and the Cold War, international organizations developed a basic framework for holding State and non-State armed groups to account for their actions when taking prisoners. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) placed itself at the very centre of these developments, making detention visiting a cornerstone of its work. Nowhere was this growing preoccupation with the problem of protectin…
Canada, human rights, and the future of the liberal international order
Human rights—specifically international human rights law—have been central to the success of the liberal international order. But since the founding of the United Nations (UN), Canada has had a complicated relationship with international human rights law. This article provides a survey of sixty years of Canadian human rights diplomacy at the UN Commission on Human Rights, from its establishment in 1946 to its dissolution in 2006. During this peri…
Power versus Leadership
European power in the 21st century is not what it was in the 20th century. The rules‐based liberal international order that Europe helped to construct after the Second World War is under threat, and arguably in decline. As this ‘order’ diminishes, so too does Europe’s ability to influence world events. While Europe will never command either the military or economic hard and ‘sharp’ power of the United States or China, it remains an important inte…
The “Big Survey”: Decolonisation, Development and the First Wave of NGO Expansion in Africa After 1945
This article sheds new light on NGO activity across Africa after the Second World War and the vital yet overlooked role played by non-state actors in the process of decolonisation. The International Council of Voluntary Agencies’ ‘Repertory of Africa’s NGOs’ (1968), analysed here for the first time, yields unprecedented insights into the ‘first wave’ of NGO expansion as an important aspect of the history of twentieth century international relatio…
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