After another decade of imperial rivalry over Korea, Japan smashed Russia in lightning naval and land attacks, stunning the world because a 'yellow' country had defeated a 'white' power.

Incipient imperial rivalry was forestalled when Germany handed its coastal holdings to Britain in 1890.

It was also a time of growing religious, imperial and economic rivalries that led to a competition for the establishment of colonies.

Most of Ingram's scholarly publishing has focused on the so-called Great Game, the imperial rivalry between the British and Russian Empires in Central Asia.

The legend first arose amid the religious strife and imperial rivalries of 16th-century Europe.

Under pressure of emerging economic and imperial rivalries during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, many of the underlying assumptions of Cobdenism were called into question.

In October 1882 Italy joined this partnership in the Triple Alliance largely because of Italy's imperial rivalries with France.

Writing in 1917, he argued that the resultant imperial rivalries had engendered the fratricidal capitalist war then raging.

Incipient imperial rivalry was forestalled when Germany handed its coastal holdings to Britain in 1890, in exchange for German control over the coast of Tanganyika.

Europe needs to overcome the apathy, appeasement and obsolete imperial rivalries that have doomed its approach to Yugoslavia.