Books by Andrew Porter

Features ten short stories that explore loss and sacrifice in American suburbia. In idyllic suburbs across the country, from Philadelphia to San Francisco, the narrators struggle to find meaning or value in their lives because of (or in spite of) something that has happened in their pasts.

Current interest in Britain's imperial past and the loss of her formal empire since World War II is substantial.

In examining the controversial historiographical literature surrounding this subject, the book criticises particular explanations, and introduces readers to some of the new directions in research and inquiry currently being explored by historians.