Ambiguities of empire : essays in honour of Andrew Porter / edited by Robert Holland, Sarah Stockwell.

Festschrift for Andrew Porter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transatlantic Protestantism and American independence / P.J. Marshall -- A good West Indian, a good African, and, in short, a good Britisher : Black and British in a colour-conscious empire, 1760-1950 / David Killingray -- Patterns of Anglo-Hellenism : a colonial connection? / Robert Holland -- Missionary manhood : professionalism, belief and masculinity in the nineteenth-century British imperial field / Rhonda A. Semple -- The ambiguous amir : Britain, Afghanistan and the 1897 north-west frontier uprising / Keith Surridge -- The Church of the Three Selves : a perspective from the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, 1910 / Brian Stanley -- Distance and proximity in service to the empire : Ulster and New Zealand between wars / Keith Jeffery -- Law, politics and analogy in Akan historiography / Richard Rathbone -- Leaders, dissidents and the disappointed : colonial students in Britain as empire ended / A.J. Stockwell -- The Central African Federation and Britain's post-war nuclear programme : reconsidering the connections / L.J. Butler -- Overseas mission, voluntary service and aid to Africa : Max Warren, the Church Missionary Society and Kenya, 1945-63 / John Stuart -- Splendidly leading the way? : Archbishop Fisher and decolonisation in British Colonial Africa / Sarah Stockwell.