Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789551723491
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Facets of Modern Ceylon History Through the Letters of Jeronis Peiris
Author: Facets of Modern Ceylon History Through the Letters of Jeronis Pieris
Author: Michael RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
On socioeconomic conditions of 19th century Ceylon as depicted in the correspondence of Hannadige Jeronis Pieris, 1829-1894, Ceylonese aristocrat; a study.
Colonial Modernities
Author: Peter ScriverPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134150261
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
International experts present an illustrated collection of essays exploring the societal impact of colonial architecture and engineering on the colonized and the colonizers.
Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka
Author: Anoma PierisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415630029
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate, ethno-cultural identities that are cultivated within it, are critical to understanding the polemical constructions of country and city; tradition and modernity; and regionalism and cosmopolitanism. The home is fundamental to ideas of the homeland that give nationalism its imaginative form and its political trajectory. This book explores positions that are vital to ideas of national belonging through the history of colonial, bourgeois self-fashioning and post colonial identity construction in Sri Lanka. The country remains central to related architectural discourses due to its emergence as a critical site for regional architecture, post-independence. Suggesting patterns of indigenous accommodation and resistance that are expressed through built form, the book argues that the nation grows as an extension of an indigenous private sphere, ostensibly uncontaminated by colonial influences, domesticating institutions and appropriating rural geographies in the pursuit of its hegemonic ideals. This ambitious, comprehensive, wide-ranging book presents an abundance of new and original material and many imaginative insights into the history of architecture and nationalism from the mid nineteenth century to the present day.
Documents of the Ceylon National Congress and Nationalist Politics in Ceylon, 1929-1950
Author: Michael RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political parties
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
Caste and Family Politics Sinhalese 1947-1976
Author: Janice JigginsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521220696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This book attempts to describe and analyse the social relationships as well as the politics when Sri Lanka became independent.
The Ceylon Historical Journal
Author: Modal Translation: The Relevance of Worlds
Author: Paul HanmerPublisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1648897088
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
This book concerns the philosophical analysis of modal sentences. David Lewis’ Modal Translation Scheme "translates" sentences of quantified modal logic into sentences of predicate logic supplemented by counterpart theory. A number of theoretical advantages are thereby secured. One component of the translation scheme makes reference to non-actual but possible worlds i.e. the primitive predicate “at a world(s), w”. The author addresses the problem of advanced modal sentences which threaten this predicate and so the ability of genuine realism to secure the aforementioned theoretical benefits. The problem of advanced modal sentences is a relatively new field of philosophical research. This ground-breaking book will primarily be of interest to researchers in modality, particularly those working in this field.
Colonialism in Sri Lanka
Author: Asoka BandaragePublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110838648
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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