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For example, throughout Latin America "whiteness" is still prized today and various forms of blanqueamiento (whitening) are common. Imperial peripheries benefited from economic efficiency improved through the building of roads, other infrastructure and introduction of new technologies.
The operation was a hazardous one for the lender as well as for the borrower. A failure on the part of the fugitive to send back the papers would imperil his benefactor, and the discovery of the papers in possession of the wrong man would imperil both the fugitive and his friend.
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Informal empire, far from being distinctive and separate from formal empire, is often bound up with formal imperial interests. For example, the British informal empire in China was a product of Company rule in India, as the East India Company used its Indian territories to grow opium, which was then shipped to Chinese ports.
Imperial is that which relates to an empire, emperor/empress, or imperialism. Imperial or The Imperial may also refer to: Places. United States. Imperial, California ...
By announcing that he was launching an impeachment probe of President Biden, whom Republicans allege of improper involvement in his son Hunter’s foreign business dealings, House Majority Leader ...
The imperial cult tolerated and later included specific forms of pluralistic monism. For imperial cult apologists, monotheists had no rational grounds for refusal, but imposition of cult was counter productive. Jews presented a special case. Long before the civil war, Judaism had been tolerated in Rome by diplomatic treaty with Graeco-Judaean ...
In his memoir 'On Call, A Doctor's Journey in Public Service,' Anthony Fauci fights back against the right-wingers and anti-vaxxers whose profit-seeking lies have cost the lives of thousands of ...