The 18th century would see England (after 1707, Britain) rise to be the world's dominant colonial power, and France becoming its main rival on the imperial stage.
Held at the Royal Albert Hall, featuring the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, it marked the continuum in Britain's ongoing quest for identity from its late imperial stage of the early 1960s to its emphatically post-imperial present.
Jessie Mueller and Joshua Henry headline a revival of "Carousel" (Feb. 28, Imperial), staged by Jack O'Brien and featuring Renée Fleming's rendition of "You'll Never Walk Alone".
The narrator of this historical novel is Mathilde Kschessinska, who was, she says, the greatest Russian ballerina on the imperial stages during the jewel-encrusted prerevolutionary era in St . Petersburg
Between 1877 and 1911, however, imperial Britain staged several Durbars, or royal celebrations, on the park's flat expanse.
The displacement of Dutch East India Company rule by an imperial state in the early stages of its industrial revolution greatly expanded local opportunities for trade and increased demands for labour, just as the slave trade was abolished in the British Empire.
At this stage Imperial appears comfortable with current consensus for earnings per share growth in 2015, which is for around 2.5% in reported currency and 4.5% in constant – i.e. the company is back to mid-singles growth, which is important given its 10% dividend growth ambitions.
"She has emerged as a symbol of Australia's edgy transformation from the white male-dominated imperial outpost that staged the 1956 Olympics to the multicultural melting pot of 2000," wrote Matthew Engel in these pages.
In a triple play, the Westbury Music Fair brings Dion and Little Anthony and the Imperials to its stage at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday to reprise their hits.
The last, greediest stage of imperial expansion, in Africa and the Pacific, was motivated less by an appetite for territory than by the wish to keep others out of it.The author's virtue is that, unlike many fashionable historians, he does not try to dress up past events as rehearsals for coming ones.
According to one senior architect of that exercise, now seconded to the rolling Cobra meeting that is coordinating the response to the real-life crisis: "We're fairly confident we can correct to the plan established in the evaluation stage of Imperial Sunset".
