Andrew Porter (historian)
Andrew Neil Porter (born 12 October 1945) was Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London from 1993 to 2008. Between 1979 and 1990, he edited the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.[1] He was educated at Christ's Hospital and St John's College, Cambridge (MA, PhD).[2]
Selected publications
- Books
- The Origins of the South African War: Joseph Chamberlain and the diplomacy of imperialism, 1895‑99. St. Martin's, New York, 1980.
- Victorian shipping, business and imperial policy: Donald Currie, the Castle Line, and southern Africa. Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, 1986. ISBN 0861932056
- The Oxford history of the British Empire: Vol. III The nineteenth century, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999. (Editor)
- Religion versus empire? British protestant missionaries and overseas expansion, 1700-1914. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2004. ISBN 9780719028236
- Articles
"The South African war and the historians" in African Affairs, Vol. 99, No. 397 (Oct., 2000), pp. 633-648.
References
- ↑ Professor Andrew Porter King's College London, 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2014. Archived here.
- ↑ ‘PORTER, Prof. Andrew Neil’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
External links
- Andrew Porter on Britain's Empire in 1815.
- http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/content/CXXVI/521/989.extract
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