A state could establish imperial hegemony in other ways.

At the opposite extreme, there was the colossal scale of the London docks - mile upon mile of them, deep, broad and decaying - that spoke for an imperial hegemony that had gone forever.

Settlers acted as the link between the natives and the imperial hegemony, bridging the geographical, ideological and commercial gap between the colonisers and colonised.

Under imperial hegemony, they've grown richer, their conditions of life are improved, they rule themselves better, and they no longer fight each other.

During the brief period of imperial hegemony over Somalia, Somali sailors and traders frequently joined British and other European ships to the Far East, Europe and the Americas.

The imperial hegemony was brief, as soon Telingana and Karnataka reverted to their former masters.

Or is he speaking about that nation of complacent and indifferent shopkeepers who long for nothing other than a return to the days of imperial hegemony?

This form of nationalism arose in reaction to dynastic or imperial hegemony, which assessed the legitimacy of the state from the "top down", emanating from a monarch or other authority, which justified its existence.

The battle of Caseros saw a victory for the alliance, and Rosas retreated in defeat to England, marking a period of imperial hegemony for the Brazilian empire across the region.

The danger of imperial hegemony, resulting from this success, made the Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus become involved in the conflict in 1630.