Andrew Porter (historian)
Andrew Neil Porter (12 October 1945 – 4 March 2021[1]) 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.[2] He was educated at Christ's Hospital and St John's College, Cambridge (MA, PhD).[3]
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
- European Imperialism, 1860-1914. Palgrave, 1994.
- 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[]
- ^ Stockwell, Sarah (30 March 2021). "Andrew Porter obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
- ^ 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
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