colonial
Example Sentences
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Mr. Hazareesingh, who teaches politics at Oxford, stays focused on the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade but includes the colonial territories of the Indian Ocean.
Perhaps less familiar to most readers but no less absorbing is the book’s treatment of colonial Spanish missionaries’ encounter with Aztec rituals.
India will mark its 77th Republic Day on 26 January - the day when the country adopted its constitution and formally became a republic, breaking from its colonial past.
From BBC
However, she says her upbringing was steeped in British culture adding: "My childhood was sort of the last embers of empire and the colonial era."
From BBC
“Some went in reverse, actually, if you look,” he said, musing on Europe’s colonial history.
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