Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History

Release on 2017-06-07 | by Zoltán Biedermann

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 ...

Author: Zoltán Biedermann
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 9781911307846
Category: History
Page: 354
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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.

Language: en
Pages: 354

Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History

Authors: Zoltán Biedermann, Alan Strathern

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-07 - Publisher: UCL Press

Language: en
Pages: 224

Sri Lanka At Crossroads: Geopolitical Challenges And National Interests

Authors: Abeyagoonasekera Asanga

Categories: Political Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-07 - Publisher: World Scientific

Having celebrated its 70th year of independence in 2018, Sri Lanka, a strategically-positioned island nation, now finds itself with the potential to be a super connector in fast-developing Asia. While carving out a place for itself in the international arena, Sri Lanka has simultaneously had to look inwards to recover

Language: en
Pages: 228

World at the Crossroads

Authors: Philip B. Smith, Samuel E. Okoye, Jaap de Wilde, Priya Deshingkar

Categories: Business & Economics

Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-05 - Publisher: Routledge

Thirty years ago the Russell-Einstein Manifesto warned humanity that our survival is imperilled by the risk of nuclear war.In the spirit of that Manifesto, we now call on all scientists to expand our concerns to a broader set of interrelated dangers: destruction of the environment on a global scale, and