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A critique of Gallaher & Robinson's 'The Imperialism of Free Trade' "The Imperialism of Free Trade" was written by John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson in 1953, and marked a sharp break with the orthodox theory of Victorian imperialism. In the article, Gallagher and Robinson rejected the idea of a supposed mid-Victorian period of anti-imperialism ("mid-Victorian indifference"), arguing that in order to properly understand the phenomenon of nineteenth century imperialism it was necessary to redefine the historiographical approach, to include the concept of "informal empire", which to them "ought to be a commonplace." Gallagher and Robinson proposed a new definition of imperialism, as being a process of integrating new regions into an expanding economy by political means (through an active government policy). The final component of the hypothesis was the theme of continuity in this process of imperialism. As briefly mentioned earlier, Gallagher and Robinson rejected the idea that imperialism could be neatly categorized into...

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