Ghosts of Empire (76 page)

Thomas, Ismay

Thomas, J. H.

Tiananmen Square massacre

Tibet

Tigris, River

Time
magazine

and Flora Shaw

and Iraqi oil

Tito, Marshal

Tokyo

Torit mutiny

Trades Union Congress

Transjordan

Transvaal

Treaty of Amritsar

Treaty of Nanking

Trench, Sir David

Trigge, Joseph

Trinity College, Cambridge

Tripoli

Trotsky, Leon

Truman, Harry S.

Truman, Hanbury, and Buxton

Tsang, Donald

Tunis

Turkestan

Turkey

Turkish Petroleum Company

Twain, Mark

Tyrwhitt-Drake, Charles

U Oktama

U Saw

U Tin Tut

Uganda

Umm Diwaykarat, Battle of

Umma Party

UNESCO

United Africa Trading Company

United Committee for the Prevention of the Demoralization of Native Races

United Nations

and Kashmir

‘oil for food' programme

and Sudan

United Service Club

United States of America

and Burma

and Hong Kong

invasion of Iraq

and Kashmir

and ‘Manifest Destiny'

and Nigeria

oil interests

and Sudan

University of Hong Kong

University of Khartoum

US Army Air Force

Uzbekistan

Vansittart, Lord

Vatican

Venezuela

Venice

Versailles Treaty

Victoria, Queen

and annexation of Burma

and Kitchener

Victoria and Albert Museum

Victoria College

Vienna

Vietnam

Vietnamese boat people

Virgil

Voice of America

Voltaire

Wagner, Richard

Wallace Brothers

Wani, Ashfaq Majid

Ward, Colonel

Washington

Waterhouse, Sir Ronald

Waterloo, Battle of

Wavell, Lord

Wellesley, Dorothy

Wellington, Duke of

Wellington College

Wells, H. G.

West African Frontier Force

Westminster, Duke of

Westminster Abbey

Westminster School

White, Major General Sir George

white elephants

Wilson, Arnold

Wilson, Harold

Wilson, Woodrow

Winchester College

Wingate, Sir Reginald

Wise, John

Wolseley, Sir Garnet

women's suffrage

Woodman, Dorothy

Woosung Camp

world order

Wright, Patrick

Wu, Gordon

Yates, Bob

Yom Kippur War

Yorkshire

Yoruba Action Group

Yoruba people

Young, Sir Mark

Younghusband, Eileen

Younghusband, Sir Francis

Yunan province

Zaghloul, Saad

Zambesi, River

Zhou Enlai

Zubeir, Haj

Zulu War

A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

Kwasi Kwarteng was born in London to Ghanaian parents in 1975. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won one of the University Classical Scholarships and graduated with a double first in Classics and History; and at Harvard University, where he spent a year as a Kennedy Scholar. He returned to Cambridge to complete a PhD in history before working as an analyst for a hedge fund in London. He was recently elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament.

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Copyright © 2011 by Kwasi Kwarteng.

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