Historians of different opinions have showed great interest in PJ. Cain and A.G. Hopkins's two volumes, British Imperialism: Innovation and Expansion 1688-1914, and British Imperialism:

Crisis and Deconstruction 1914-1990, since their publication in 1993. Many reviews with comments for and against Cain and Hopkins's concept of gentlemanly capitalism and inter­pretation of British imperialism have appeared.

The most comprehensive response so far has been the collective work entitled Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Imperialism, which includes eight essays and a general introduc­tion by the editor commenting on Cain and Hopkins's arguments. This study work also includes an afterword by Cain and Hopkins themselves.¹ It seems that 'gentlemanly capitalism' is becoming a viable concept in the historical debate on British imperialism, despite the ambiguity surrounding its connotation. Cain and Hopkins's books, however, have not yet attracted much attention from historians in China: as far as I know, no review has appeared in a Chinese-language publication. In this chapter, I shall comment on Cain and Hopkins's British Imperialism and elaborate some of my own ideas on British imperialism and decolonization.

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1. One of the characteristics of British Imperialism 1688-2000 written by PJ. Cain and A.G. Hopkins is the emphasis put on China as an area in which the working of British imperial policy propelled by gentlemanly capitalism was clearly discerned.1
2. Considered in the setting of global - or simply international - history, British gentlemanly imperialism was only one among many, not always 'gentlemanly' forms of imperialism.1
3. 11 The Peculiarities of British Capitalism: Imperialism and World Development1
4. 3Globalism and Imperialism: the Global Context of British Power, 1830-1960
5. Part I British Imperialism and the Global Order
6. 5 Gentlemanly Imperialism and the British Empire after 1945
7. 7 British Imperialism and Decolonization: a Chinese Perspective
8. 10 British Imperialism, the City of London and Global Industrialization1
9. Gentlemanly capitalism and British expansion in Asia
10. 2 Gentlemanly Capitalism and the Making of a Global British Empire: Some Connections and Contexts, 1688-1815
11. The weaknesses of the Cain-Hopkins thesis
12. Genealogies of Modern Violence: Arendt and Imperialism in Africa, 1830-1914
13. The merits of the Cain-Hopkins thesis
14. 28 BRITISH MISSIONS AND MISSIONARIES IN THE HIGH IMPERIAL ERA, C. 1857-1914
15. China before 1905: gentlemanly imperialism on the defensive
16. The idea of ‘imperialism'
17. 4 Empire, Imperialism and the Partition of Africa
18. Akita Shigeru. Gentlemanly Capitalism, Imperialism and Global History. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.,2002. — 279 p., 2002
19. “Ecological Imperialism” Revisited