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Bernard Porter

Bernard Porter’s books include the recently reissued Critics of Empire: British Radicals and the Imperial Challenge.

Selected bibliography

  • Critics of Empire: British Radicals and the Imperial Challenge (reissue, 2007)
  • Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World (2006)
  • The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain (2004)
  • The Lion’s Share: A Short History of British Imperialism, 1850-1995 (1996)
  • Britannia’s Burden: Political Evolution of Modern Britain, 1851-1990 (1994)
  • The Origins of the Vigilant State: The London Metropolitan Police Special Branch Before the First World War (1987)
  • Britain, Europe and the World, 1850-1982: Delusions of Grandeur (1983)
  • The Refugee Question in mid-Victorian Politics (1979)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Friendly Fire · 21 February 2008

subscriber-only content Trying to Make Decolonisation Look Good · 2 August 2007

subscriber-only content Did he puff his crimes to please a bloodthirsty readership? · 5 April 2007

  • Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Nobbled or Not · 25 May 2006

  • British Documents on the End of Empire Series B Volume 9: Central Africa: Part I: Closer Association 1945-58 by Philip Murphy
  • British Documents on the End of Empire Series B Volume 9: Central Africa: Part II: Crisis and Dissolution 1959-65 by Philip Murphy

subscriber-only content Palmerstonian · 20 October 2005

  • The Official History of the Falklands Campaign: Vol. I: The Origins of the Falklands War by Lawrence Freedman  Buy this book
  • The Official History of the Falklands Campaign: Vol. II: War and Diplomacy by Lawrence Freedman  Buy this book

How did they get away with it? · 3 March 2005

  • Histories of the Hanged: Britain’s Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire by David Anderson  Buy this book
  • Britain’s Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya by Caroline Elkins  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Not the Brightest of the Barings · 18 November 2004

  • Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul by Roger Owen  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Strew the path with flowers · 4 March 2004

  • Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade and Prohibition 1800-1928 by James Mills

subscriber-only content So Much to Hate · 25 April 2002

  • The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour

subscriber-only content Over Several Tops · 14 January 2002

  • Churchill: A Study in Greatness by Geoffrey Best
  • Churchill by Roy Jenkins

subscriber-only content More Interesting than Learning how to Make Brandy Snaps · 18 October 2001

  • Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5 by Stella Rimington

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive How the Judges Stood in the Way of Socialism · 1 June 2000

  • The Struggle for Civil Liberties: Political Freedom and the Rule of Law in b Britian 1914-1945 by K. D. Ewing and C.A. Gearty

 not available in archive Boarder or Day Boy? · 15 July 1999

  • The Culture of Secrecy in Britain 1832-1998 by David Vincent

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