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Author : H. W. Codrington
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120609464
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Short History of Ceylon written by H. W. Codrington and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1995-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Humphrey William Codrington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Ceylon written by Humphrey William Codrington and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evelyn Frederick Charles Ludowyk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Ceylon written by Evelyn Frederick Charles Ludowyk and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K M de Silva
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351182398
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book A History of Sri Lanka written by K M de Silva and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : K. M. De Silva
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520043206
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (432 download)
Download or read book A History of Sri Lanka written by K. M. De Silva and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Tinker
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824812874
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (128 download)
Download or read book South Asia written by Hugh Tinker and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Peebles
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313024715
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The History of Sri Lanka written by Patrick Peebles and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sri Lanka—an island nation located in the Indian Ocean— has a population of approximately 19 million. Despite its diminuative size, however, Sri Lanka has a long and complex history. The diversity of its people has led to ethnic, religious, and political conflicts that continue to exist. Peebles describes the experiences of the country, from its earliest settlers, to civil war, to its current state, allowing readers to better understand this often misunderstood country. With an emphasis on the 20th century, chapters discuss the economy, religion, culture, and government of Sri Lanka. A timeline outlines key events in Sri Lankan history, as well as biographies of notable people, and a bibliographic essay.
Author : Kate Walbert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416594981
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Women written by Kate Walbert and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by a suffragist ancestor who starved herself to promote the integration of Cambridge University, Evie refuses to marry and Dorothy defies a ban on photographing the bodies of her dead Iraq War soldier sons, a choice that embarrasses Dorothy's daughters.
Author : Zoltán Biedermann
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1911307827
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History written by Zoltán Biedermann and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : M. Epstein
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023027076X
Total Pages : 1457 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Statesman's Year-Book written by M. Epstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 1457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Author : Hara Prasad Shastri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Short History of India written by Hara Prasad Shastri and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. Ratnaswami
Publisher : Annamalainagar : Thaiyalnayaki Veliyeedu ; New Delhi : copies can be had from Munshiram Manoharlal
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Short History of the Ancient Tamils and Their Literature written by S. Ratnaswami and published by Annamalainagar : Thaiyalnayaki Veliyeedu ; New Delhi : copies can be had from Munshiram Manoharlal. This book was released on 1979 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ramsay Muir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (116 download)
Download or read book A Short History of the British Commonwealth written by Ramsay Muir and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert George Wells
Publisher : Binker North
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book A Short History of the World written by Herbert George Wells and published by Binker North. This book was released on 1922 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Short History of the World is a period-piece non-fictional historic work by English author H. G. Wells. The book was largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work The Outline of History.
Author : Charles McLean Andrews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Short History of England written by Charles McLean Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir James Emerson Tennent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon written by Sir James Emerson Tennent and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl Muller
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780140255621
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (556 download)
Download or read book Colombo written by Carl Muller and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1995 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colombo is in the throes of an explosion. Its face changes continuously, its vices are legion, its future as yet obscure and its paths speak of sunlight as well as of shadow.-' Carl Muller begins his quasi-fictional portrait of this beautiful, war-torn city by describing the great battles fought over it by European colonizers-. In AD 1505, a Portuguese fleet blown off-course took shelter in Galle, overthrew the local kings, fortified Colombo and decided to stay. The Dutch came along, ousted the Portuguese, made Colombo their capital and ruled till the British arrived and sent them packing. Muller intersperses the tales of the past into descriptions of the battles that are being fought in Colombo today"political battles in which vested interests play a major role as well as battles fought on the individual level in the struggle to survive: young women and children turning to prostitution to earn an extra buck, people begging in the streets to make ends meet, unemployed young men turning to crime in frustration, students demonstrating against atrocities, lovers pining for nightfall in order to push away loneliness if only for a few moments... Written in Muller's lucid style, Colombo: A Novel is a chronicle of a city's trials and triumphs.
