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According to Wikipedia, Archibald Paton Thornton was an academic and historian. He was the author of the seminal history of the British Empire, The Imperial Idea and its Enemies: A Study in British Power . He was professor of history at University College, University of Toronto.

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The imperial idea and its enemies (1959) (82)
British Economic Policy and the Empire, 1919-1939 (1972) (56)
Doctrines of Imperialism (1966) (43)
The Imperial Idea and Its Enemies: A Study in British Power (1985) (38)
Russia and Britain in Persia, 1864-1914 : a study in imperialism (1969) (35)
British Policy in Persia, 1858–18901 (1954) (30)
West-India policy under the Restoration (1956) (27)
The Founding of New Societies: Studies in the History of the United States, Latin America, South Africa, Canada, and Australia by Louis Hartz (review) (1966) (20)
Imperialism in the Twentieth Century (1979) (20)
The Habit of Authority. Paternalism in British History (1966) (16)
The Impact of Nationalism (1985) (15)
Empire: The View from Beyond (1992) (13)
Neither War nor Peace: The Struggle for Power in the Post-War World (2007) (10)
For the File on Empire (1968) (10)
The Rights of Men (1968) (9)
The Organization of the Slave Trade in the English West Indies, 1660-1685 (1955) (9)
Smuts. The Sanguine Years 1870-1919 (1963) (8)
The Impact of Democracy (1985) (8)
THE REOPENING OF THE ‘CENTRAL ASIAN QUESTION’, 1864–9 (1956) (8)
For the file on Empire : essays and reviews (1968) (6)
The Partition of Africa (1962) (5)
V. Afghanistan in Anglo-Russian Diplomacy, 1869–1873 (1954) (5)
The Shaping of Imperial History (1999) (4)
Spanish Slave-Ships in the English West Indies, 1660-85 (1955) (3)
The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Sir Anthony Eden: Full Circle by Anthony Eden (review) (1960) (3)
British Statesmen in India (1964) (3)
Studies in British Imperial History: Essays in Honour of A.P. Thornton (1986) (3)
The South African Frontier (1968) (3)
The ‘Central Asian Question’ (1968) (2)
The G. R. G. Conway MS. Collection in the Library of the University of Aberdeen (1956) (2)
8. The Lords of Human Kind: European Attitudes to the Outside World in the Imperial Age . By V.G. Kiernan. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. Pp. xv+336. 63 s . (1970) (2)
British Policy in Persia, l858–l890 (1955) (2)
G. A. Henty’s British Empire (1968) (2)
Jekyll and Hyde in the Colonies (1965) (2)
The habit of authority : paternalism in British history (1967) (2)
Colonial Policy and Colonial Politics (1953) (1)
Aspects of West Indian Society (1960) (1)
Studies in British imperial history (1986) (1)
The Idea of a University (1968) (1)
Rivalries in the Mediterranean, The Middle East, and Egypt (1962) (1)
Smuts: A Journey with Maps (1967) (1)
The World of Prester John (1966) (1)
Riding Off in All Directions (1982) (1)
Imperial Frontiers in the Levant, 1870–1900 (1968) (1)
Joseph Chamberlain: Radicalism and Empire, 1868-1914 (1967) (0)
Argument About Africa (1953) (0)
The Kings of the Sunset (1971) (0)
Book Review: Commonwealth of Nations: British Statesmen in India (1964) (0)
English and Spanish Slavers in the Caribbean (1968) (0)
Russia and Britain in Persia, 1864–1914: A Study in Imperialism. By Firuz Kazemzadeh. [Yale Russian and East European Studies, Number 6.] (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 1968. Pp. ix, 711. $15.00.) (1969) (0)
Book Review:Reluctant Empire: British Policy on the South African Frontier, 1834-1854 John S. Galbraith (1964) (0)
Book Review: International Politics and Economics: The Rise and Fall of Western Colonialism (1964) (0)
The Change in the Wind (1984) (0)
The Impact of War: (ii) 1914–18 (1985) (0)
The Dilemmas of Trusteeship: Aspects of British Colonial Policy between the Wars by Kenneth Robinson (review) (1967) (0)
ESSAY AND REFLECTIONS; Third Thoughts on Empire (1988) (0)
Persia in Anglo-Russian Relations, 1858–90 (1968) (0)
Agents of Empire: The Buccaneers (1968) (0)
British Attitudes towards India, 1784-1858. George D. BearceBritish Relations with Sind, 1799-1843: An Anatomy of Imperialism. Robert A. Huttenback (1963) (0)
An Imperial Twilight (1968) (0)
‘My Country, Right or Wrong’ (1968) (0)
The Combined Assault (1985) (0)
An Indian Verdict (1968) (0)
Imperialists at Noon (1968) (0)
The Grammar of Imperial History (1987) (0)
Empire and Imperialism (1968) (0)
Joseph Howe: Opportunist or Empire-builder? (1960) (0)
With Wavell on to Simla and Beyond (1976) (0)
Charles II’s American Policy (1968) (0)
Curzon in India. David Dilks (1972) (0)
The Far Country (1968) (0)
Mid-Day with the Imperialists (1963) (0)
West Indian Attitudes (1968) (0)
The Impact of War: (i) The Boer War (1985) (0)
The British in Manila, 1762–4 (1968) (0)
The Imperial Order . By Robert G. Wesson. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. Pp. 547. $10.00.) (1968) (0)
The Emergence of Empire (1985) (0)
The Commonwealth in Shock: Suez 1956 (1968) (0)
The Imperial Idea at Its Zenith (1985) (0)
The Long Shadow (1968) (0)
Proconsul in Politics: A Study of Lord Milner in Opposition and in Power. A. M. Gollin (1965) (0)
The Roots of Jingoism (1968) (0)
The Habit of Authority: Paternalism in British History (1967) (0)
Lord Salisbury and Foreign Policy: The Close of the Nineteenth Century by J. A. S. Grenville (review) (1965) (0)
Review Article: The Ways of the World (1999) (0)
The Cambridge Medieval History. IV. The Byzantine Empire. Part I. Byzantium and Its Neighbours. Second Edition. ed. by J. Hussey (review) (1967) (0)
Afghanistan in Anglo-Russian Relations, 1868–73 (1968) (0)

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