Continental imperialism lacked geographic distance to separate foreign illegality from home legality.

Evidence

The British Empire, on the other hand, was a grab-bag of primarily tropical possessions scattered over every continent. Only a minority of the subjected peoples had any long-standing religious, linguistic, cultural, or even political and economic, ties with the metropole. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 364 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egypt’s Sudan invasion lacked the conditions defining European imperialism.; Britain’s scattered overseas possessions lacked organic ties to the metropole — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 364

Related

• Britain’s scattered overseas possessions lacked organic ties to the metropole (similarity 0.92)
• Continental imperialism needs no overseas distance and operates directly at home (similarity 0.80)
• Continental Eastern empire mattered more than overseas colonies to German identity (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Egypt’s Sudan invasion lacked the conditions defining European imperialism. #corroborates (0.85)
• Britain’s scattered overseas possessions lacked organic ties to the metropole #corroborates (0.82) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 364