Sentence examples for imperial contexts from inspiring English sources

In imperial contexts, language is a notoriously unreliable measure of cultural independence.

Responses to the "inhabited-Mars hypothesis", she concludes, were conditioned by "imperial contexts" and by earthbound ideas about irrigated deserts.

She is also interested in information studies, commodity circulation, and histories of science in British and British imperial contexts.

It highlights the fact that the evolution of Iraq's (and those of its Ottoman forbears) international boundaries to the east, north and west was rarely straightforward and reflected both regional considerations and imperial contexts.

Nor did the old four Ionian tribes altogether disappear as religious entities; they are mentioned in a sacrificial context in a late 5th-century inscription and continued to matter in imperial contexts.

Generously illustrated with both color and black-and-white images, Empire of Dogs shows that human-canine relations often expose how people especially those with power and wealth use animals to define, regulate, and enforce political and social boundaries between themselves and other humans, especially in imperial contexts.

The last few decades have seen a powerful move among British historians to understand metropolitan politics within that imperial context.

Yet that imperial context matters, for the simple reason that Europe's imperial states and politicians in this period devised policies and strategies with it always in mind.

An examination of the partition of Palestine in this broader imperial context suggests that partition, far from representing a "solution" to ethnic conflict, actually emerged as a strategy to smooth the path for imperial powers to create new forms of informal authority and friendly client states for a new postcolonial era, without regard for the human costs.

Josephine Butler's campaigns against the state regulation of prostitution have been studied almost exclusively in the anglophone and imperial context.

In the wider Imperial context, Southern Rhodesia occupied a category unto itself because of the "special quasi-independent status" it held.