Author: R. Rajpal Kumar De SilvaPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004089792
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Illustrations and Views of Dutch Ceylon 1602-1796
Author: R. Rajpal Kumar De SilvaPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004089792
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Maps and Plans of Dutch Ceylon
Author: K. D. ParanavitanaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789556131376
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
"Maps and plans of Dutch Ceylon attempts to present the results of the combined efforts of a host of persons who contributed to producing maps of the island, as well as neighbouring lands and seas, in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Illustrations and Views of Dutch Ceylon 1602-1796
Author: De SilvaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004644520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 503
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.
Ceylon
Author: Henry MarshallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Adaptable Peasant
Author: Nirmal Ranjith DewasiriPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004165088
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
This study analyses how in early colonial times, the peasant society of Sri Lanka underwent fundamental changes in the land tenure system as it faced the arrival of the Dutch East India Company administration's merchant capitalism.
Dutch and British Colonial Intervention in Sri Lanka, 1780-1815
Author: Alicia SchrikkerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900415602X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
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.
(Dis)connected Empires
Author: Zoltán BiedermannPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198823398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
(Dis)connected Empires takes the reader on a global journey to explore the triangle formed during the sixteenth century between the Portuguese empire, the empire of Kotte in Sri Lanka, and the Catholic Monarchy of the Spanish Habsburgs. It explores nine decades of connections, cross-cultural diplomacy, and dialogue, to answer one troubling question: why, in the end, did one side decide to conquer the other? To find the answer, Biedermann explores the imperial ideas that shaped the politics of Renaissance Iberia and sixteenth-century Sri Lanka. (Dis)connected Empires argues that, whilst some of these ideas and the political idioms built around them were perceived as commensurate by the various parties involved, differences also emerged early on. This prepared the ground for a new kind of conquest politics, which changed the inter-imperial game at the end of the sixteenth century. The transition from suzerainty-driven to sovereignty-fixated empire-building changed the face of Lankan and Iberian politics forever, and is of relevance to global historians at large. Through its scrutiny of diplomacy, political letter-writing, translation practices, warfare, and art, (Dis)connected Empires paints a troubling panorama of connections breeding divergence and leading to communicational collapse. It examines a key chapter in the pre-history of British imperialism in Asia, highlighting how diplomacy and mutual understandings can, under certain conditions, produce conquest.
Ceylon Under the British
Author: G.C. MendisPublisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120619302
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Covers the period, 1796-1948.
Surveying and Mapping in Colonial Sri Lanka
Author: Ian J. BarrowPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This is the first in-depth academic work on the Ceylon Survey Department and provides an institutional history of the largest government department on the island. It argues that there was no 'single colonialism' but varieties of colonialism explained by local conditions and exigencies.