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About this book
This book comprises essays offered by friends, colleagues, and former students in tribute to Andrew Porter, on the occasion of his retirement from the Rhodes Chair in Imperial History at the University of London. The contributors, including many distinguished historians, explore through a variety of case studies 'ambiguities of empire' and of imperial and quasi-imperial relationships, reflecting important themes in Professor Porter's own writing.
Whilst the range of articles reflects the breadth of Andrew Porter's scholarly collaborations and interests, the chapters focus in particular on two aspects of imperial history which have been the subject of his particular attention: religion and empire and the end of empire. The book contains original pieces on the history of British imperialism currently the subject of considerable scholarly attention. The book will be invaluable to students and scholars of empire, religion and colonialism.
This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Professor Andrew Porter
- Introduction
- 1 Transatlantic Protestantism and American Independence
- 2 ‘A Good West Indian, a Good African, and, in Short, a Good Britisher’: Black and British in a Colour-Conscious Empire, 1760–1950
- 3 Patterns of Anglo-Hellenism: A ‘Colonial’ Connection?
- 4 Missionary Manhood: Professionalism, Belief and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century British Imperial Field
- 5 The Ambiguous Amir: Britain, Afghanistan and the 1897 North-West Frontier Uprising
- 6 The Church of the Three Selves: A Perspective from the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, 1910
- 7 Distance and Proximity in Service to the Empire: Ulster and New Zealand between the Wars
- 8 Law, Politics and Analogy in Akan Historiography
- 9 Leaders, Dissidents and the Disappointed: Colonial Students in Britain as Empire Ended
- 10 The Central African Federation and Britain’s Post-War Nuclear Programme: Reconsidering the Connections
- 11 Overseas Mission, Voluntary Service and Aid to Africa: Max Warren, the Church Missionary Society and Kenya, 1945–63
- 12 ‘Splendidly Leading the Way’? Archbishop Fisher and Decolonisation in British Colonial Africa
- Index