"imperial experience" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe someone's experience or familiarity with an imperial or imperialistic system or culture. Example: After years of working in a colony under British rule, Sarah had a deep understanding of the complexities and challenges of imperial experience.
It seemed like a contradiction in terms: isn't the opera, by nature, an imperial experience?
For the lesson of Britain's imperial experience is clear: you simply cannot have an empire without imperialists -- out there, on the spot -- to run it.
I ring Scottish historian William Dalrymple, many of whose wonderful books, such as White Mughals and Return of a King, have dealt with the pleasures and pains of the British imperial experience in India.
The rebellions and resistance of the subject peoples of empire were so extensive that we may eventually come to consider that Britain's imperial experience bears comparison with the exploits of Genghis Khan or Attila the Hun rather than with those of Alexander the Great.
And yet it must be remembered that while the white settler societies of Canada, Australia and New Zealand were granted representative institutions, a great majority of the empire's subjects were nonwhite and experienced imperial rule without such privileges.
They understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.
The prolific historian wrote about the New Deal, the cold war and the Kennedy administration, to which he was an adviser, but he is best known for his 1973 book, "The Imperial Presidency", which has experienced a revival of late.Richard Daley shrugged off his opponents' accusations of corruption at City Hall and cruised to a sixth term as mayor of Chicago, winning more than 70% of the vote.
Both countries fought and expelled imperial aggressors and subsequently experienced a decade of civil war, producing generations of highly-skilled fighters.
The gap between Britain's rhetoric and its reality is most marked in its experience as an imperial power.
Then I dug in, thinking vague thoughts about bayonets and the fake 'putrefaction' smell they pump out while you're wandering around the Trench Experience at the Imperial War Museum.
This dynamic holds for countries that have the experience of racialised imperial and colonial structuring.
