Sentence examples for imperial legacy from inspiring English sources

He thinks they have a propensity to violence and a troubling imperial legacy.

The discipline of geography is also scrutinized, both for its imperial legacy and also its overbearing whiteness.

But the right place to start is to acknowledge not deny the imperial legacy.

The first is whether its contents are sufficiently awful to force a serious re-evaluation of Britain's imperial legacy.

257 p. Imperial Legacy : the Ottoman Imprint on the Balkans and the Middle East / edited by L. Carl Brown.

This is the case even in Britain, despite the imperial legacy and a long, subsequent history of emigration from India.

Egypt and Turkey, both with imperial legacies and modern aspirations, and similarly distrustful of Tehran, would be right behind.

Neither I nor my wife, who was once a graduate student at Oriel, could recall the existence of a Rhodes statue at Oxford (though she vividly remembered a large portrait of Rhodes glowering down on students inside the college) – a reminder that imperial legacies are not necessarily less pernicious because they may be less obviously visible.

Iran at heart is a country like any other, struggling to free itself from poisonous colonial and imperial legacies, pursuing its rights and interests in a world dominated by great powers, fought over by competing secular and religious elites, talented, potentially wealthy, badly governed, and deeply uncertain how to meet the rising expectations of coming generations.

The special issue examines empirically and theoretically the conjunctions between sexuality and technology, between queerness and the Middle East, and between transformative politics and colonial and imperial legacies.

She asked the audience to consider how attending to the gaps within historical accounts of Italian colonial entanglements in Albania, North Africa and East Africa would enable us to reframe the current migrant crisis in terms of much older imperial legacies, while also complicating the dichotomy between the postsocialist and nonsocialist worlds.