| The common places he unveils are intricately specific, overwriting such generalizations as modernism and primitivism, metropole and colony. |
| Where exports do take place beyond traditional 'colonial' markets, it is often through enterprises based in the former colonial metropole. |
| Instead they built and lost an empire, and millions of former subjects came to the metropole to make their home as citizens. |
| European nations entered their imperial projects with the goal of enriching the European metropole. |
| The capitol, the metropole, was the source of ostensibly enlightened policies imposed throughout the distant colonies. |
| State monopolies or privileged private companies secure strategic resources and keep open the conduits that provide money to the metropole. |
