The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy

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He does this in the context of his own journey of discovery about postwar human rights that led him, for example, to be a critical voice in the investigations of the unsafe legal basis for the invasion of Iraq. The origin of those convictions, as he sets them out, lay in the brutal knowledge that two of his great-grandmothers, both widows, had been deported from Vienna to die in Theresienstadt and Treblinka during the Holocaust. Lee, Stephen J. (1996). Aspects of British political history, 1914–1995. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-13102-5.

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Middleton, Alex (6 August 2019). "Review: The Imperial History Wars: Debating the British Empire, by Dane Kennedy". The English Historical Review. 134 (568): 773–775. doi: 10.1093/ehr/cez128.Zanzibar became independent on 10 December 1963. It joined with Tanganyika on 25 April 1964 to form Tanzania. Most of the UK's Caribbean territories achieved independence after the departure in 1961 and 1962 of Jamaica and Trinidad from the West Indies Federation, established in 1958 in an attempt to unite the British Caribbean colonies under one government, but which collapsed following the loss of its two largest members. [248] Jamaica attained independence in 1962, as did Trinidad and Tobago. Barbados achieved independence in 1966 and the remainder of the eastern Caribbean islands, including the Bahamas, in the 1970s and 1980s, [248] but Anguilla and the Turks and Caicos Islands opted to revert to British rule after they had already started on the path to independence. [249] The British Virgin Islands, [250] The Cayman Islands and Montserrat opted to retain ties with Britain, [251] while Guyana achieved independence in 1966. Britain's last colony on the American mainland, British Honduras, became a self-governing colony in 1964 and was renamed Belize in 1973, achieving full independence in 1981. A dispute with Guatemala over claims to Belize was left unresolved. [252] Brown, Judith (1998). The Twentieth Century, The Oxford History of the British Empire Volume IV. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-924679-3. Archived from the original on 3 January 2014 . Retrieved 22 July 2009. Bandyopādhyāẏa, Śekhara (2004). From Plassey to partition: a history of modern India. Orient Longman. ISBN 978-81-250-2596-2. Anderson, Adam; Combe, William (1801). An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce, from the Earliest Accounts. J Archer.