1. An Act to Remove Doubts as to the Validity of Colonial Laws, 28 & 29 Vict. (1865), ch. 63
2. for background see D.B. Swinfen, Imperial Control of Colonial Legislation 1813-1865: A Study of British Policy Towards Colonial Legislation Powers (plOxford: Clarendon 1970).
3. Credit for first use of the “imperial footprint” metaphor in connection with Diego Garcia is due to sociologist David Vine’s thesis (Chapter 1, note 6). For historical analysis of the underlying “universalist ideology” and of American self-perception as “the advance guard of civilization, leading the way against backward and barbaric nations and empires,” see R. Kagan, Dangerous Nation (plNew York: Knopf 2006) p. 416.
4. K. Roberts-Wray, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire (plNottingham: University of Nottingham Press 1969)
5. R.W. Van Alstyne, The Rising American Empire (plNew York: Norton 1974)