Timo Särkkä, Lic.Phil
Doctoral candidate
Department of History and Ethnology
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
E-mail: titasa@campus.jyu.fi
Research interests
Timo Särkkä’s field of specialization is late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century British intellectual and political history. In his forthcoming Ph.D. thesis Hobson’s Imperialism. History, Theory, and Paradigm Särkkä examines J. A. Hobson’s (1858–1940) social and economic theory of imperialism.
Traditionally scholars have been more interested in the Empire’s impact upon the world than on its impact upon Britain. The case was quite opposite for Hobson who widely discussed imperialism’s impact upon Britain’s democratic institutions, its economy, its politics (in which foreign policy dominated at the expense of social policy) and the influence of imperialism upon the British mindset.