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The idea of imperial federation threw up its own ironies.
Adults too, particularly the working classes, were thought to need imperial education.
His conciliatory blend of piety and erudition as well as his medical expertise made him an imperial favourite.
The failure of ralliement among the local elites represents a more fundamental failure of acculturation for the imperial regime than even armed rebellion.
Just as there was no imperial logic to liberalism, so the relationship between utilitarianism and empire is rather more ambiguous than is sometimes recognized.
Nothing less than a comprehensive scheme for imperial defence was required and would have to be paid for, infuriating the settlers still further.
Imperial expansion brought with it, then, a clearer forging of national identity.
They dared not come out boldly for protective tariffs, or even for any considerable increase in imperial preference.
Before 'premature transnationalism' developed fully into its mature phase as liberal internationalism, transanationalism had again mutated so as to acquiesce to the imperial order.
As the individual towns, their tribute requirements, or the imperial status of the provinces changed over time, the document could be modified accordingly.
The incorporation of rural gentry also prevented unrest in the countryside, by aligning the main possessors of armed force with the imperial state.
In late imperial times, there was no radically new use of agricultural fields that would have promoted change in the tenancy of land.
Unmistakable and identifiable imperial ideologies, it was often assumed, developed only in the later nineteenth century.
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