blue water empire

(noun)

A name for the British empire that stretched across the Atlantic and was characterized as "Protestant, commercial, maritime, and free."

Related Terms

  • Blue Water Empire
  • despotism
  • metropole

Examples of blue water empire in the following topics:

  • Blue Water Imperialism

    • Theoretically, British imperialists envisioned a "blue water empire," in that the British empire stretching across the Atlantic was "Protestant, commercial, maritime, and free."
    • Blue water empire ideology also hinged on the expansion of international commerce and national wealth.
    • Since trade was to be international and mutually beneficial to all Atlantic nations and colonies, blue water empire was thus a maritime project.
    • By definition, blue water empire was an empire of the seas, and the expansion of Britain into the Atlantic was of paramount importance to expanding British trade influences.
    • Freedom in blue water empire ideology was the defining characteristic that reconciled the inherent tensions between the notion of empire and liberty for 18th-century British liberals.
  • River Valley Civilizations

    • Most notably, these early civilizations were all hydraulic empires.
    • A hydraulic empire (also known as hydraulic despotism, or water monopoly empire) is a social or governmental structure which maintains power through exclusive control over water access.
    • Hydraulic empires were usually destroyed by foreign conquerors.
    • Water stress is the term used to describe difficulty in finding fresh water or the depletion of available water sources.
    • Water crisis is the term used when there is not enough fresh, clean water to meet local demand.
  • The Moche

    • However, scholars suggest this civilization functioned as individual city-states, sharing similar cultural elite classes, rather than as an empire or a single political system.
    • These ornate canals diverted river water to crops across the region.
    • Together, all three features symbolize land, water and air.
    • Because irrigation was the source of wealth and foundation of the empire, the Moche culture emphasized the importance of circulation and flow.
    • When this structure was originally completed it would have been covered in brightly painted murals in yellows, blues, reds, and black.
  • Waxes

    • The formulas for three well known waxes are given below, with the carboxylic acid moiety colored red and the alcohol colored blue.
    • The feathers of birds and the fur of some animals have similar coatings which serve as a water repellent.
    • Carnuba wax is valued for its toughness and water resistance.
  • Properties of Sulfur

    • Sulfur burns with blue flame, is insoluble in water, and forms polyatomic allotropes.
    • Sulfur burns with a blue flame, concomitant with formation of sulfur dioxide, notable for its peculiar suffocating odor.
    • Sulfur is insoluble in water but soluble in carbon disulfide and, to a lesser extent, in other nonpolar organic solvents, such as benzene and toluene.
    • Sulfur burns with blue flames and forms blood-red liquid when it melts.
  • Plant Responses to Light

    • The red, far-red, and violet-blue regions of the visible light spectrum trigger structural development in plants.
    • In terrestrial habitats, light absorption by chlorophylls peaks in the blue and red regions of the spectrum.
    • As light filters through the canopy and the blue and red wavelengths are absorbed, the spectrum shifts to the far-red end, shifting the plant community to those plants better adapted to respond to far-red light.
    • Blue-light receptors allow plants to gauge the direction and abundance of sunlight, which is rich in blue–green emissions.
    • Water absorbs red light, which makes the detection of blue light essential for algae and aquatic plants.
  • Major Features of a Phase Diagram

    • The phase diagram for water is useful for learning how to analyze these diagrams.
    • Along the blue phase boundary, water exists as both a vapor and a liquid.
    • At the triple point, water in the solid, liquid, and gaseous states coexist.
    • The dotted green line is meant to replace the solid green line in the corresponding phase diagram of water.
    • It illustrates water's anomalous behavior.
  • Community Ecology and Ecosystem Ecology

    • Both the Karner blue larvae and the ants benefit from their interaction .
    • Some of the abiotic components include air, water, and soil.
    • Ecosystem biologists ask questions about how nutrients and energy are stored, along with how they move among organisms and the surrounding atmosphere, soil, and water.
    • The Karner blue butterflies and the wild lupine live in an oak-pine barren habitat.
    • Karner blue butterfly caterpillars form beneficial interactions with ants.
  • Cyanobacteria

    • The cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green bacteria, are a phylum of bacteria that obtain their energy through photosynthesis.
    • Cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green bacteria, blue-green algae, and Cyanophyta, is a phylum of bacteria that obtain their energy through photosynthesis.
    • These can have the appearance of blue-green paint or scum.
    • In water columns some cyanobacteria float by forming gas vesicles, like in archaea.
    • Cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green bacteria, blue-green algae, and Cyanophyta, is a phylum of bacteria that obtain their energy through photosynthesis
  • Copper

    • This complex exhibits the fastest water exchange rate (speed of water ligands attaching and detaching) of any transition-metal-aquo complex.
    • Adding aqueous sodium hydroxide causes the precipitation of light blue solid copper (II) hydroxide.
    • This complex exhibits the fastest water exchange rate (speed of water ligands attaching and detaching) of any transition-metal-aquo complex.
    • Adding aqueous sodium hydroxide causes the precipitation of light blue solid copper(II) hydroxide.
    • Copper (II) acquires a deep blue coloration in the presence of ammonia ligands.
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