Sentence examples for colonial context from inspiring English sources

In short, it would never have made the cut in a European court, but in a colonial context -- many of us would say in any context -- it is imaginatively accomplished and is certainly up to the local competition.

Embodying these qualities in a colonial context, Fiat Tagliero was a monument to the aeroplane and a concrete reminder of the often-bitter universal experiences of the 20th century that shaped so many cities around the world.

Our findings suggest that, even in the British colonial context, smallholder export crop cultivation led to higher private incomes as well as greater public investment.

The aim of this article is to examine the transmission of garden city notions into the colonial context by focussing on French Dakar, a key site of colonisation in West Africa.

Many recent studies have emphasized the negative effects of such ideas and policies in a colonial context: they have drawn attention to the way in which they devalued local African ideas, undermined local management strategies, and criminalized access to important economic and cultural resources.

"I'm trying to convey," says Tyrell, "the way that both white and black femininity have been intertwined and codependent of one another in a historical and colonial context".

More substantially, the catastrophist notion that the war "smashed the modern world off the rails and started a cycle of murderous extremism" overlooks what "the modern world" had been doing in colonial contexts for decades before 1914: the murderous battle of Omdurman (1898) prefigured the Somme, but the victims, being proto-Islamic extremists, get overlooked.

Much of the recent effort in this field has been on early encounters of indigenous peoples with Europeans in colonial contexts.

Research on the urban grid plan in colonial contexts tends to analyse the grid as an occidental top-down phenomenon that was inscribed on a spatial tabula rasa of indigenous environments overseas.

"The 'houseboy' in many colonial contexts was typically adult," she added.

Though the article did concern these converts, careful readers noted that the more significant issue concerned the challenges for many Hindus in the Diaspora to acculturate, assimilate, and integrate when immersed in a purportedly post-colonial context.