1. 3 J.-L. Triaud, ‘Histoire coloniale: le retour’, Afrique et histoire 6:2 (2006), 237–47.
2. 5 C. Coquery-Vidrovitch, ‘Histoire de la colonisation et anti-colonialisme: Souvenirs des Années 1960–80’, Afrique et histoire 6:2 (2006), 247–61. (The references are to R. Girardet, L’Idée coloniale en France (Paris, 1972); J. Marseille, Empire colonial et capitalisme français: histoire d’un divorce (Paris, 1984) and P. Nora, Les Lieux de mémoire (Paris, 1984–92).)
3. 6 First published in 1974 by the New Zealand Journal of History, and republished the following year in the Journal of Modern History. J. G. A. Pocock, ‘British History: A Plea for a New Subject’, New Zealand Journal of History 8 (1974), 3–21 and The Journal of Modern History 47:4 (Dec 1975), 626–8.
4. 8 As Pocock put it incredulously, ‘A. J. P. Taylor’s volume of the Oxford History of England opens with a flat and express denial that the term “Britain” has any meaning’. J. G. A. Pocock, ‘British History: A Plea for a New Subject’, New Zealand Journal of History 8 (1974), 3–21, here 3.
5. 12 D. Armitage is an exception here, who noted how ‘The long, withdrawing roar of empire could be heard behind [Pocock’s] plea’. See D. Armitage, ‘Greater Britain: A useful category of historical analysis?’, American Historical Review 104:2 (April 1999), 427–45.