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This chapter provides an overview of the island of Great Britain and the role that islands have played in the project of empire.
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Gillis, JR (2003) ‘Taking History Offshore: Atlantic Islands in European Minds 1400–1800’. In Edmond, R & Smith, V (eds.) Islands in History and Representation. London: Routledge.
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Dening, G (1980) Islands and Beaches. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, p. 32.
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Lowenthal , D (2007) Islands, Lovers, and Others. Geographical Review, 97 (2), 202–229. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/30034162.
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Gillis, JR (2003) ‘Taking History Offshore: Atlantic Islands in European Minds 1400–1800’. In Edmond, R & Smith, V (eds.) Islands in History and Representation. London: Routledge, p. 20.
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Riquet, J (2014) The Aesthetics of Island Space: Perception, Ideology, Geopoetics. Doctoral Thesis, Faculty of Arts, University of Zurich.
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Freedgood , E (2012) ‘Islands of Whiteness’. Victorian Studies, 54 (2), 298–304. https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.54.2.298.
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Dee, J (1570) ‘Brytannicae Reipublicae Synopsis’. In The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee, and the Catalogue of His Library of Manuscripts: From the Original Manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and Trinity College Library. Cambridge and London: Camden Society 1842.
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Technically, the British Empire did not begin until 1707 Acts of Union when England and Scotland became united as Great Britain.
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Swingen, AL (2015) ‘Unfree Labour and the Origins of Empire’. In Labour, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire. Yale University Press, p. 14.
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Sipress, J (1997) ‘Relearning Race: Teaching Race as a Cultural Construction’. The History Teacher, 30 (2), 175–185. https://doi.org/10.2307/494572.
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Beckles, H (2016) The First Black Slave Society. University of West Indies Press.
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Walvin, J (2007) A Short History of Slavery. London: Penguin Books, p. 52.
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Ibid.
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Ibid., p. 162.
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Draper, N (2008) ‘The City of London and Slavery: Evidence from the First Dock Companies 1795–1800’. Economic History Review, 61 (May, 2).
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For more information on the research project, see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/project/.
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Olusoga , D (2015) ‘The History of British Slave Ownership Has Been Buried: Now Its Scale Can Be Revealed’. The Guardian, July 12. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/12/british-history-slavery-buried-scale-revealed. Accessed 4 September 2018.
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Mills , C (1997) The Racial Contract. Cornell University Press.
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This very brief overview can be explored further in the writing of Scott Nietzel in his Ph.D. examination entitled ‘The Falklands War: Understanding the Power of Context in Shaping Argentine Strategic Decisions’ (2007). Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. For a more detailed analysis on the historical colonisation of the Falkland Islands see Reisman, W. Michael (1983) ‘The Struggle for the Falklands’. Faculty Scholarship Series. Paper 726. Yale Law School.
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Murdoch, H (2009) ‘A Legacy of Trauma: Caribbean Slavery, Race, Class, and Contemporary Identity in “Abeng”’. Research in African Literatures, 40 (4), 65–88. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/40468162.
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This took place most notably during the Berlin West Africa Conference (1884–1885) and through a series of smaller agreements in 1890.
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Chamberlain (2010) The Scramble for Africa, 3rd edition. London, UK: Pearson Educated Ltd., p. 3.
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Gupta, S (2007) ‘1857 and Ideas About Nationhood in Bengal: Nuances and Themes’. Economic and Political Weekly, 42 (19), 1762–1769. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/4419582.
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Krishan, K (2017) Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World. Princeton University Press, p. 314.
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Edmond, R & Smith, V (eds.) (2003) Islands in History and Representation. London: Routledge.
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Gupta, S (2007) ‘1857 and Ideas About Nationhood in Bengal: Nuances and Themes’. Economic and Political Weekly, 42 (19), 1762–1769.
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Lowenthal, D (2007) ‘Islands, Lovers, and Others’. Geographical Review, 97 (2), 202–229.
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Reisman, MW (1983) ‘The Struggle for the Falklands’. Faculty Scholarship Series. Paper 726. Yale Law School.
Riquet, J (2014) The Aesthetics of Island Space: Perception, Ideology, Geopoetics. Doctoral Thesis, Faculty of Arts, University of Zurich.
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Swingen, AL (2015) ‘Unfree Labour and the Origins of Empire’. In Labour, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire. London: Yale University Press.
Walvin, J (2007) A Short History of Slavery. London: Penguin Books.
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McMillan, K. (2019). Islands of Empire: Geographies of Forgetting. In: Contemporary Art and Unforgetting in Colonial Landscapes. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17290-9_2
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