Andrew Neil Porter (12 October 1945 – 4 March 2021) was Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at

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from 1993 to 2008. Between 1979 and 1990, he edited the ''

Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History ''The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of the British Empire, colonial and settler colonial histories, British Commonwealth, Commonwealth histories and comparative European colo ...

''. He was educated at

Christ's Hospital Christ's Hospital is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English Private schools in the United Kingdom, fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 11–18) with a royal charter, located to the south of Horsham in West Sussex. T ...

and

St John's College, Cambridge St John's College, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch L ...

(MA, PhD).‘PORTER, Prof. Andrew Neil’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014

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.''

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, Woodbridge, 1986. *''European Imperialism, 1860–1914.'' Palgrave, 1994. *''The Oxford history of the British Empire: Vol. III The nineteenth century,''

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, Oxford, 1999. (Editor) *''Religion versus empire? British protestant missionaries and overseas expansion, 1700–1914.''

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, Manchester, 2004. ;Articles "The South African war and the historians" in ''

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'', Vol. 99, No. 397 (Oct., 2000), pp. 633–648.

References

External links

Andrew Porter on Britain's Empire in 1815.
1945 births 2021 deaths People educated at Christ's Hospital Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Academics of King's College London British historians Fellows of King's College London {{UK-historian-stub