Imperialism: A Study

John Atkinson Hobson, the son of William Hobson and Josephine Atkinson, was born in Derby on 6th July 1858. He studied at Derby Grammar School and Lincoln College, Oxford, and afterwards taught classics and English literature at Schools in Faversham and Exeter. In 1887 Hobson moved to London where he joined the Fabian Society. An active member he wrote two books for the organization, Problems of Poverty (1891) and Problem of the Unemployed (1896). Other books published during this period included the Evolution of Modern Capitalism (1894) and John Ruskin: Social Reformer (1898). Hobson’s autobiography, Confessions of an Economic Heretic, was published in 1938. John Atkinson Hobson died on 1st April, 1940.