To come to England in the 1970s was to return to this strange other-world of half-known history. I found the imperial architecture curiously familiar: the post office, the town hall, the botanic gardens.
There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march.
In general we would be talking about enhancing the existing properties. There are some that would be candidates for being torn down, the Imperial Palace being the first on the list.
The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.
Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.
We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)
Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.
Back in the 70s I knew people who could recall when Sugar Land was a company town - the company being the Imperial Sugar Company.
When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.
In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.