Sentence examples for colonial development from inspiring English sources
His writings and vision of the colony as a Puritan "city upon a hill" dominated New England colonial development, influencing the governments and religions of neighboring colonies.
Edenton is a Colonial town that was a major port of entry during Colonial development.
The discovery of rich mineral deposits in the Belgian Congo made colonial development schemes increasingly attractive.
He became president of the Board of Trade in 1748 and took an active interest in colonial development, helping to found Halifax, N.S., and in several ways rendering good service to trade, especially with North America.
Once the scramble for colonies was complete, pressure groups did form in the various countries to argue the economic promise of imperialism, but just as often governments had to foster colonial development.
Jasanoff's ambition is to escape from the familiar conquering/conquered vision of empire, and to replace it with a more nuanced explanation of colonial development, uncovering the distortions caused by the permanent clash with the empire of France and highlighting the role of individuals far from the centre of imperial decision-making.
The landscape of post-colonial development is marked by deepening dependency of the developing states on the core states consisted mainly of western developed countries.
As they ate and drank, the precocious 23-year-old Hamilton saw in the power of the falls an engine of post-Colonial development for the nascent nation.
It is concluded that, despite the tendency on the part of the post-colonial leadership to vigorously maintain these policies, they were never designed with post-colonial development endeavours in mind.
No single factor can explain long-run economic outcomes, of course, but Mr Cook's idea may be worth milking.* "The role of lactase persistence in pre-colonial development", by C. Justin Cook, Journal of Economic Growth, December 2014.
Themes include the relationship between empire and development, the role of international institutions, the influence of the Cold War, decolonization and post-colonial development strategies, reform and resistance to development, development and global health, and the ecological effects of development.
