Constitutions: The Constancy of Change
Constitutional provisions determine the status of 50-odd former colonies that have never achieved full independence and are still administered by Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Nomenclature varies wi
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John Connell · Robert Aldrich
The Ends of Empire
John Connell • Robert Aldrich
The Ends of Empire The Last Colonies Revisited
John Connell School of Geosciences University of Sydney Sydney, NSW, Australia
Robert Aldrich Department of History University of Sydney Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Preface
Twenty years ago, our book The Last Colonies (1998) examined the status of some 50 overseas territories still administered by Britain, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, New Zealand, Australia, the United States, Portugal and Spain. They varied enormously in size, population, culture and status. Puerto Rico is a huge island with a correspondingly large population of more than three million, located quite close to its ‘colonial power’, the United States. By contrast tiny Pitcairn Island is more than 1000 kilometres from the next occupied island, an overseas territory of a fading colonial power on the other side of the globe. Tristan da Cunha is 2400 kilometres from any other inhabited place. But not all are either islands or small. Greenland, with two million square kilometres, is 50 times the size of its ‘colonial power’, Denmark. Ceuta, Melilla and Gibraltar are small urban continental enclaves. Scattered around the globe, and in every ocean, these places are usually overlooked in analyses of grand economic or geopolitical issues. We argued that ‘the last colonies’ deserved more attention, not only for
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