Within the academy, it serves as a founding text in the field of postcolonial studies, and undergirds investigations of imperial culture, knowledge production, and categories of identity.
Most effectively, Kubodera's footnotes show the institutions of knowledge as tools of imperial power.
Younger Japanese display at best a sketchy knowledge of the Japanese imperial conquest in the 1930's, in part because the history curriculum in schools ends before that period.
Eusebius' understanding of the Arab peoples is informed by his reading of the Bible and his knowledge of the history of imperial Rome.
Indeed, Churchill's critics have often questioned the depth of his knowledge and his intellectual engagement with imperial problems.
On the other hand, the imperial administration's initiatives affected local forms of medical knowledge and the construction of vernacular languages.
Teaching children about the environment can affect the knowledge and behaviour of parents, says research by Imperial scientists in the Seychelles.
Mr Mansel is an authority on this Indian summer of French royal and imperial court society, and shows to the full here his knowledge of its people, places, books and archives.
Partly, however, it is because we must now contend with the knowledge that the stormtroopers are virtually slaves to Imperial power themselves.
Upon his coronation, Meiji issued his Charter Oath, calling for deliberative assemblies, promising increased opportunities for the common people, abolishing the "evil customs of the past", and seeking knowledge throughout the world "to strengthen the foundations of imperial rule".
Of course, British people have next to no knowledge of this, just as they know little of their imperial history in general.
