Ambiguities of Empire

Robert Holland is Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Amongst his chief publications are Britain and the Commonwealth Alliance, 1918-39 (1981), European Decolonization, 1918-91: An introductory survey, The Pursuit of Greatness: Britain and the World Role, 1900-1970, and most recently Britain and the Revolt in Cyprus, 1954-59.Sarah Stockwell is Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Commonwealth History at the Department of History, Kings College London. She is the author of The Business of Decolonisation: British Business Strategies in the Gold Coast and co-editor of Imperial Policy and Colonial Practice, 1925-1945, 2 vols.

• 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