The Dutch Forts of Sri Lanka
Author : William A. Nelson
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 15,19 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fortification
ISBN :
Author : William A. Nelson
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 15,19 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fortification
ISBN :
Author : W. A. Nelson
Publisher :
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 1982
Category :
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Author : Ralph Henry Bassett
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9788120612747
Its History, Legend And Story. Drawings By Kathleen Murdoch And E J Laws.
Author : Charles A. Gunawardena
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,68 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781932705485
Over 1,100 alphabetically arranged entries examine the history, geography, people, government, economy, art, and religions of Sri Lanka.
Author : R. Rajpal Kumar De Silva
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9789004089792
Author : Eric Klingelhofer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 35,39 MB
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004187324
Proto-colonial archaeology explores the physical origins of the world culture that evolved out of contacts made in the Age of Exploration, from Columbus to Cromwell. The early defended sites show how colonizing Europeans first responded to the challenges of new environments and new peoples, and how their choices led to conquest, adaption, or failure. Fortifications, once necessary to protect the colonies, are now essential clues to understand their history. The first comparative study of proto-colonial fortifications, First Forts is a collection of essays written by leading archaeologists in the field. Meeting the needs of archaeologists and historians around the globe, this book will also appeal to military enthusiasts, preservationists, and students of the Age of Exploration. Contributors are David Orr, Kathleen Deagan, Steven Pendery, Eric Klingelhofer, Nicholas Luccketti, Edward Harris, Roger Leech, Paul Huey, Jay Haviser, Oscar Hefting, Christopher DeCorse, Ranjith Jayasena and Pieter Floore.
Author : Alicia Schrikker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 900415602X
This study of Dutch and British colonial intervention on Sri Lanka in the period 1780 - 1815 provides a new over-all characterisation of the functioning and growth of the colonial state in a period of transition.
Author : Zoltán Biedermann
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1911307843
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.
Author : De Silva
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9004644520
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN :