Metropole

The Metropole was the name given to the English metropolitan center of the British Empire, i.e., England itself, and in some contexts, specifically London or the London financial district and its small number of corporate and personal constituents who defined the cultural, financial, military, and political character of the Empire as a whole. Contrast this with the Periphery, which was essentially the rest of the Empire outside of England itself.

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The historiography of metropole-periphery relations has traditionally been defined in terms of complete separation of the two with a distinctly one-way channel of communication; the metropole informed the periphery, but the periphery did not directly inform the metropole. Recent work has rejected this and instead has posited that the two were mutually constituitive, so that each formed simultaneously in relation to the other.

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The word can also be used to describe other states with colonies such as France.

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English: English in common usage may refer to:...

Periphery: Generally, a periphery is a boundary or outer part of any space or body. It is derived from the Greek word περιφέρεια, meaning a circumference or outer surface....

Metropole related Images and Photos (experimental)

Acatene Metropole

Cycles de La Metropole

Cafe Metropole Tyrone Power Loretta Young Adolphe Menjou 1937