The thrust of Ferguson's work stresses the positive, more "modern" legacy of the empire.
(Unlike the lecture, the disputation hasn't survived as an institution, but its modern legacy includes the oral defenses that Ph.D. candidates make of their theses, and the format of our legal trials).
MacMillan's review certainly addresses the more convincing arguments of the book, but it ignores the complication that the "Jewel" of the argument raises: that the British Empire bequeathed a "modern" legacy to the current world.
Hunting the wren or "wrenning" survived longest in southern Ireland, but its modern legacy is a more humane charitable event in which birds are left unharmed.
His modern legacy includes several large parks now in the Chicago Park District: Jackson Park, Washington Park, Midway Plaisance and Harold Washington Park.
They work on a broad range of projects, viewing themselves as the modern legacy-bearers of the legendary Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).
His publicity machine from St . Martins Press is trying to convince TV and radio personalities to interview Frank because his story is, "is a chilling look at the rise and fall of a modern legacy".
In the summer of 2013, Bedford set out to photograph the modern day legacies of the groups she studied in school.
It's a modern day legacy.
But he doesn't acknowledge that New York City, unlike Oklahoma City, has a modern collective legacy of placing real estate revenue and commerce over humanistic concerns.
