A. P. Newton
British historian
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Arthur Percival Newton (1873–1942)[1] was a historian of the British Empire who was Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London from 1920 to 1938. He was a general editor of The Cambridge History of the British Empire.
Selected publications
- The colonising activities of the English Puritans: The last phase of the Elizabethan struggle with Spain. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1914.
- The empire and the future, a series of imperial studies lectures delivered in the University of London, King's College. Macmillan, London, 1916.
- An introduction to the study of colonial history. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1919.
- The staple trades of the empire. Dent, London, 1918.
