Britain and France had turned away from internationalism, adopting trade systems known as Imperial Preference, which favored their vast overseas empires.

However, in 1942, he was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army and sent to New Britain Island in Papua New Guinea.

Imperial Hubris

(1824 was the year the British Imperial system of weights and measures was adopted, 1707 was the year of the Act of Union which created the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Keating believed that the fighting at Kokoda represented the real birth pains of an independent Australia, not some colonial appendage of Britain created to serve imperial purposes in the Far East.

Putin s Imperial Dreams

Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to record the civil and military war effort and sacrifice of Britain and its Empire during the First World War.

America s Late Imperial Dilemma

Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society

Instead of an expansionist Russian empire confronting Imperial Britain, it is now a China hungry for land, water, and raw materials that is flexing its muscles, encroaching on Himalayan redoubts and directly challenging India.

In 1856, he graduated from the Imperial Military Academy in Saint Petersburg and enlisted in the Imperial Russian Army.

Imperial traditions never fade away completely.

In imperial China, this meant Confucian orthodoxy.

Of course, America is not Imperial Germany.

Matrix Reference Manual, Mike Brookes, Imperial College London.

In 1772, he began work in the Imperial Palace, assigned as an imperial bodyguard and was stationed at the gates to the Forbidden City.

This time, the real politics of the contemporary world the year of the Balfour Declaration, the year when the new imperial power in the Middle East, Britain, decides that it will declare a Jewish national home, it will allow the Jews to return.

Most international borders in the Middle East and North Africa were drawn by imperial powers Britain, France, and Italy either after World War I and the breakup of the Ottoman Empire (the Sykes Picot agreements), or, as in Libya and Sudan, earlier.

Labeling time in this way echoes China s imperial history.

However, imperial units (e.g., survey feet) are also used.

China has demonstrated no interest in emulating either the nineteenth century European imperial powers, or Japan s imperial efforts in the first half of the twentieth century.

In the development of Imperial rule from Principate to Dominate, the role of the Senate was increasingly marginalised and military loyalty became the key to Imperial authority.

Brittle Britain

But imperial fatigue after Iraq and Afghanistan has left its imprint.

Imperial Chancellor Beust quickly negotiated the Compromise with the Hungarian leaders.

It was even proposed to move the Imperial capital to Lisbon.

An hour after that, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor.

Britain by Itself

Britain and Northern

The US was born in a citizens revolt against British imperial power.

While imperial in origin, the rationale behind the Currency Board was sound.

The imperial nature of identity in Russia, for example, is deeply ingrained.

On the contrary, Russia s imperial ambitions persisted, and persistence has paid off.

Russia is not becoming assertive, aggressive, or imperial, as many observers claim.

The strategy was presented to the Dominions at the 1923 Imperial Conference.

The Battle for Britain

Britain in the Wilderness

Britain nationalizes its banks.

Does Europe Need Britain?

The Humiliation of Britain

1 December 1999, Britain.

Chairman Mao s rule combined elements of the Chinese imperial system with Communist totalitarianism.

France is not Imperial Rome, where panem et circenses made a fundamental difference.

Moldova has been particularly helpless in the face of the Kremlin s imperial designs.

Vilno Military District () was a Russian military district of the Imperial Russian Army.