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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Ancient Ceylon
Author: Henry ParkerPublisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120602083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
An account of the aborigines and of part of the early civilization in Sri Lanka.
The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland
Author: An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon
Author: Robert KnoxAsia in the Making of Europe, Volume III
Author: Donald F. LachPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226467696
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
First systematic, inclusive study of the impact of the high civilizations of Asia on the development of modern Western civilization.
An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, in the East-Indies
Author: Robert KnoxPublisher:
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Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Robert Knox was travelling with his father in 1659 on the latter's journey homeward from his post with the British East India Company at Fort St. George when a storm obliged their ship to put into Cottier Bay, Ceylon. The two were detained as prisoners along with 14 others, and carried into the interior of the island. Knox's father died in 1661, but Knox himself remained a prisoner at large for over 19 years, supporting himself by knitting caps, lending out corn and rice, and hawking goods about the country. Though the rajah pressed him to enter his service, Knox resisted, and finally escaped to the Dutch settlement at Arippu on the north-west of the island. Reaching England in 1680, he entrusted the manuscript of this account to Robert Hooke, and enlisted in the East India Company, for further adventures in an already adventuresome life. These engravings include depictions of agricultural techniques, two native primates, customs and costumes and an execution being carried out by an elephant.
The History of Ceylon, from the Earliest Period to the Year MDCCCXV
Author: A. M. PhilalethesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110804655X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 799
Book Description
This 1817 book traces the history of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from the classical period to 1815.
The Legal System of Ceylon in Its Historical Setting
Author: NadarajaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900464444X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
The Temporal and Spiritual Conquest of Ceylon
Author: Fernão de QueyrozPublisher:
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
A History of Sri Lanka
Author: K M de SilvaPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351182398
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Sri Lanka is an ancient civilization, shaped and thrust into the modern globalizing world by its colonial experience. With its own unique problems, many of them historical legacies, it is a nation trying to maintain a democratic, pluralistic state structure while struggling to come to terms with separatist aspirations. This is a complex story, and there is perhaps no better person to present it in reasoned, scholarly terms than K.M. de Silva, Sri Lanka’s most distinguished and prolific historian. A History of Sri Lanka, first published in 1981, has established itself as the standard work on the subject. This fully revised edition, in light of the most recent research, brings the story right up to the early years of the twenty-first century. The book provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of Sri Lanka’s development—from a classical Buddhist society and irrigation economy, to its emergence as a tropical colony producing some of the world’s most important cash crops, such as cinnamon, tea, rubber and coconut, and finally as an Asian democracy. It is a study of the political vicissitudes of Sri Lanka’s ancient civilization and the successive phases of Portuguese, Dutch and British colonial rule. The unfortunate consequences of becoming a centre of ethnic tension and Sri Lanka’s long-standing relationship with India are also discussed. Exhaustively researched and analytical, this book is an invaluable reference source for students of ancient, colonial and post-colonial societies, ethnic conflict and democratic transitions, as well as for all those who simply want to get a feel of the rich and varied texture of Sri Lanka’s long history.
The East in the West
Author: Jack GoodyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521556736
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The East in the West reassesses Western views of Asia. Traditionally many European historians and theorists have seen the societies of the East as 'static' or 'backward'. Jack Goody challenges these assumptions, beginning with the notion of a special Western rationality which enabled 'us' and not 'them' to modernise. He then turns to book-keeping, which several social and economic historians have seen as intrinsic to capitalism, arguing that there was in fact little difference between East and West in terms of mercantile activity. Other factors said to inhibit the East's development, such as the family and forms of labour, have also been greatly exaggerated. This Eurocentrism both fails to explain the current achievements of the East, and misunderstands Western history. The East in the West starts to redress the balance, and so marks a fundamental shift in our view of Western and Eastern history and society.