Name: Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History
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Author: Strathern, Alan ; Biedermann, Zoltan
ISBN: 9781013287534

portada Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alan Strathern

Zoltán Biedermann

Publisher

Saint Philip Street Press

Language

English

Pages

356

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

27.9 x 21.6 x 2.1 cm

Weight

1.11 kg.

ISBN13

9781013287534

Synopsis "Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History"

The peoples of Sri Lanka have participated in far-flung trading networks, religious formations, and Asian and European empires for millennia. This interdisciplinary volume sets out to draw Sri Lanka into the field of Asian and Global History by showing how the latest wave of scholarship has explored the island as a 'crossroads', a place defined by its openness to movement across the Indian Ocean. Experts in the history, archaeology, literature and art of the island from c.500 BCE to c.1850 CE use Lankan material to explore a number of pressing scholarly debates. They address these matters from their varied disciplinary perspectives and diverse array of sources, critically assessing concepts such as ethnicity, cosmopolitanism and localisation, and elucidating the subtle ways in which the foreign may be resisted and embraced at the same time. The individual chapters, and the volume as a whole, are a welcome addition to the history and historiography of Sri Lanka, as well as studies of the Indian Ocean region, kingship, colonialism, imperialism, and early modernity This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

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