This volume, written by distinguished historians and former students, is a tribute to Andrew Porter - the Rhodes Chair in Imperial History at the University of London. The essays explore ‘ambiguities of empire’ and of imperial and quasi-imperial relationships, reflecting important themes in Professor Porter’s own writing.

1. Introduction: Andrew Porter Robert Holland and Sarah Stockwell 2. Transatlantic Protestantism and American Independence P.J. Marshall 3. ‘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 4. Patterns of Anglo-Hellenism: A ‘Colonial’ Connection? Robert Holland 5. Missionary Manhood: Professionalism, Belief and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century British Imperial Field Rhonda A. Semple 6. The Ambiguous Amir: Britain, Afghanistan and the 1897 North-West Frontier Uprising Keith Surridge 7. The Church of the Three Selves: A Perspective from the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, 1910 Brian Stanley 8. Distance and Proximity in Service to the Empire: Ulster and New Zealand between the Wars Keith Jeffery 9. Law, Politics and Analogy in Akan Historiography Richard Rathbone 10. Leaders, Dissidents and the Disappointed: Colonial Students in Britain as Empire Ended A.J. Stockwell 11. The Central African Federation and Britain’s Post-War Nuclear Programme: Reconsidering the Connections L.J. Butler 12. Overseas Mission, Voluntary Service and Aid to Africa: Max Warren, the Church Missionary Society and Kenya, 1945–63 John Stuart 13. ‘Splendidly Leading the Way’? Archbishop Fisher and Decolonisation in British Colonial Africa Sarah Stockwell