Author: Joris van SpilbergenPublisher: S.N. Publishing Company
ISBN: 9789559620105
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Journal of Spilbergen
Author: Joris van SpilbergenPublisher: S.N. Publishing Company
ISBN: 9789559620105
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History
Author: Zoltán BiedermannPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1911307843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
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.
Journal
Author: Jan van RiebeeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Hollanders in America
Author: Martinus Nijhoff PublishersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Journal, &c
Author: Jan van RiebeeckThe East and West Indian Mirror
Author: Joris van SpilbergenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages around the world
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Dutch in Ceylon
Author: Richard Gerald AnthoniszPublisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120618459
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The book, in the words of the author, is his attempt to fulfill a long felt want of a complete, yet concise, account of the Dutch occupation of Ceylon 1640 to 1796. It is essentially a history of the Dutch people who came to the island, among which are included Joris van Spilbergan, Sebald de Weerd, Coster, Boreel, Francois Caron Maatzuyketo, Thysz, Kittensteyn, Van der Meiden, Hulft, etc. Through out the book valuable information is given about the political conditions and about the Dutch interactions with the Singhalese. Details of treaties and skirmishes are provided. The Dutch engagements with the Portuguese are also noticed. The book has a map of Ceylon and 12 other illustrations that portray key fingers and events.The book is a reprint of the 1929 edition.
Digging Up Stories
Author: James ThompsonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719073151
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
James Thompson explores the problems of theatre practice in communities affected by war and exclusion. Each chapter or "story" is written in a lively and accessible style and draws on a range of contemporary performance theories.
Catalogue of Books, Maps, Plates on America, and of a Remarkable Collection Or Early Voyages; Including a Large Number of Books in All Languages, with Bibliographical and Historical Notes, and Presenting an Essay Towards a Dutch-ameican Bibliography
Author: Frederik MullerVoc: A Bibliography of Publications Relating to the Dutch East India Company, 1602-1800
Author: John LandwehrPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004619674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
At the height of its power and influence in the seventeenth and eighteenth century the VOC - acronym for the United Netherland East India Company - was the greatest commercial concern in the world. The scope of its activities extended from the Cape of Good Hope to Japan. In some aspects, the Baltic trade and the North Sea fisheries were of more fundamental relevance for the economy of the Lowlands. But it was the more spectacular East Indian trade which aroused the admiration and the envy of foreigners, sometimes to the point of war. In this bibliography several topics are covered. Not only technical matters such as the legal status of the VOC, its management, directors and shareholders, but also subjects as voyages, battles, ship building, navigation, geography, natural history, ethnography, mission work, ministration, and many others. With 1674 entries, fully described and fully indexed.