But if they had, they would have seen an odd and captivating little trace of empire: windmilling bowlers, batsmen in white leg pads, fielders chasing down a bouncing red ball — former colonials playing Britain's game in yet another former colony, one where cricket has all but disappeared from the collective memory.
Somehow, after her performance at Colonial, after playing for the third consecutive week, after 34 grueling holes, Sorenstam found a way.
He argued that the city was built as a settler-colonial capital, playing an instrumental role in the Japanese colonization of Hokkaido.
French colonial regiments played a major role in the liberation of the south.
Mr. Sullivan brought up the brutal winter of 1779-1780, when he said, the colonial army "played defense" in the Watchung mountains in New Jersey.
The gorgeous white colonial that plays the family house, where much of the film is set, is in Madison, not far from Main Street.
Here, too, the French colonial legacy plays an important part in the story, and Sembene embodies it with his dramatic conception as well as his directorial invention.
In the competitive game of colonial adventures played out in Africa and the Far East during the 15th to the 19th century, the law of the survival of the fittest ruled just as it did in the jungle.
To welcome the first visitors of Newfoundland's late-summer cruise season, two young women in redcoat colonial uniforms played flutes on the quay, and Sailor, a huge Newfoundland dog, wagged his tail enthusiastically.
The pure hero becomes the victim of a sad, envious sergeant (boot-faced Grégoire Colin), and Melville's God-like Captain Vere becomes a guilty veteran of French colonial wars played by Michel Subor, star of Godard's Le Petit Soldat.
This case study effectively demonstrates the crucial role that imperial connections and colonial improvement played in the global movement of goods, people, and ideas.
