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Author : João de Barros
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to 1600 A. D. written by João de Barros and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. Arasaratnam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131713320X
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book François Valentijn’s Description of Ceylon written by S. Arasaratnam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: François Valentijn's Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien (Old and New East Indies) has for long been regarded as a primary source of information on a number of regions of maritime Asia. It is a veritable encyclopaedia, bringing together an array of facts, trivial and vital, from a wide range of contemporary and earlier literature, acknowledged and unacknowledged, and contains valuable excerpts from contemporary documents of the Dutch East India Company and from private papers. It is indeed a public archive. Despite this historic character of the work, it was never republished in full in a critical edition or made available in English translation. It has therefore remained relatively unknown and little read, except by the specialist wanting to quarry this mine of information for his particular purpose. This edition of Valentijn embraces the part dealing with Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the fifth volume of Old and New East Indies. The island of Ceylon is one of three areas that has received the most detailed treatment in the work, with substantial sections devoted to geography, topography, society, natural history and the record of historical tradition. He also provides an almost contemporaneous account of the Dutch conquest of the island. For his description of Ceylon, Valentijn has had access to a variety of sources - Sinalese, Portuguese and Dutch - and has presented this material to us with his characteristic attention to detail. The volume now published with an introduction and explanatory notes is many things for many people: a geographer's manual, a naturalist's handbook, an anthropologist's collection of caste and custom, an antiquarian's record of tradition and a chronicler's narrative of history. One of the most informative writings on Ceylon is made available, for the first time, to the English-reading public.
Author : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Ceylon Branch, Colombo
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Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society written by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Ceylon Branch, Colombo and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the Society's Proceedings.
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Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jorge Manuel Flores
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447054904
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (549 download)
Download or read book Re-exploring the Links written by Jorge Manuel Flores and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2007 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island of Ceilao occupied a permanent and singular place in the political imagination of early modern Portugal. Concurrently, the Portuguese left a strong imprint in the Sri Lankan collective memory of the period. Five centuries later, a group of historians, art historians, anthropologists, and linguists reflect on the multiple dimensions of this phenomenon by rethinking texts and maps, ruined churches and ivory caskets, oral tales and Creole communities. Authored by 15 international scholars, Re-exploring the Links is divided in four parts: "Political Realities and Cultural Imagination"; "Religion: Con. ict and Interaction"; "Space and Heritage: Construction, Representation"; "Language and Ethnicity, Identity and Memory". While published on the occasion of the Portuguese arrival in Sri Lanka five centuries ago, this book is far from being a celebratory piece. Re-exploring the Links does not conform to nationalist models of historical interpretation and refuses both the rhetoric of discovery and the rhetoric of aggression. The aim of the volume is not to celebrate "encounters", but to reinvent an academic debate, independent of any political agenda and concerning a history that is Portuguese and Sri Lankan alike.INTRODUCTORY ESSAYChandra R. de Silva, Portugal and Sri Lanka: Recent Trends in HistoriographyPOLITICAL REALITIES AND CULTURAL IMAGINATION S. Pathmanathan The Portuguese in Northeast Sri Lanka (1543-1658): An Assessment of Impressions Recorded in Tamil Chronicles and Poems Rohini Paranavitana, Sinhalese War Poems and the Portuguese Karunasena Dias Paranavitana The Portuguese Tombos as a Source of Sixteenthand Seventeenth-Century Sri Lankan History Rui Manuel Loureiro, The Matter of Ceylon in Diogo do Couto's Decadas da Asia Jorge Flores, Maria Augusta Lima Cruz A 'Tale of Two Cities', a 'Veteran Soldier', or the Struggle for Endangered Nobilities: The Two Jornadas de Huva (1633, 1635)RELIGION: CONFLICT AND INTERACTIONAlan Strathern, The Conversion of Rulers in Portuguese-Era Sri Lanka John Clifford Holt, Buddhist Rebuttals: The Changing of the Gods and Royal (Re)legitimization in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Sri Lanka Ines G. Zupanov, Goan Brahmans in the Land of Promise: Missionaries, Spies and Gentiles in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Sri Lanka Jurrien van Goor, State and Religion under the Dutch in Ceylon, c. 1640-1796SPACE AND HERITAGE: CONSTRUCTION, REPRESENTATIONZoltan Biedermann, Perceptions and Representations of the Sri Lankan Space in Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Texts and MapsHelder Carita, Portuguese-Influenced Religious Architecture in Ceylon: Creation, Types and ContinuityNuno Vassallo e Silva, An Art for Export: Sinhalese Ivory and Crystal in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesLANGUAGE AND ETHNICITY, IDENTITY AND MEMORYKenneth David, Jackson Singelle Nona/Jinggli Nona: A Traveling Portuguese Burgher MuseDennis B. McGilvray, The Portuguese Burghers of Eastern Sri Lanka in the Wake of Civil War and Tsunami
Author : Armando Cortesão
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317014626
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Suma Oriental of Tomé Pires written by Armando Cortesão and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing the translated Books I-V of the Suma Oriental: An Account of the East, from the Red Sea to Japan, written in Malacca and India in 1512-1515, and The Book of Francisco Rodrigues, Rutter of a Voyage in the Red Sea, Nautical Rules, Almanack and Maps, Written and Drawn in the East before 1515. Translated from the Portuguese MS in the Bibliothèque de la Chambre des Deputés, Paris. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 90) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1944.
Author : Zoltán Biedermann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192556363
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book (Dis)connected Empires written by Zoltán Biedermann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (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, cartography, 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.
Author : Chandra R. de Silva
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351909797
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Portuguese Encounters with Sri Lanka and the Maldives written by Chandra R. de Silva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portuguese Encounters with Sri Lanka and the Maldives: Translated Texts from the Age of the Discoveries is designed to provide access to translations of 16th- and 17th-century documents which illustrate various aspects of this encounter, combining texts from indigenous sources with those from the Portuguese histories and archives. These documents contribute to the growing understanding that different groups of European colonizers - missionaries, traders and soldiers - had conflicting motivations and objectives. Scholars have also begun to emphasize that the colonized were not mere victims but had their own agendas and that they occasionally successfully manipulated colonial powers. The texts in this volume help to substantiate these assertions while also illustrating the changing nature of the interactions. The present volume contains chapters covering the Portuguese arrival in Sri Lanka and their first encounters with the island and its peoples, their subsequent relations with Kandy and Jaffna, and a final chapter on Portuguese relations with the Maldive Islands. A historical introduction provides the context in which the documents can be read and a select bibliography indicates the most recent and authoritative secondary works on the subject
Author : John Wade
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Total Pages : 1194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book British History Chronologically Arranged written by John Wade and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tomé Pires
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120605350
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Suma oriental of Tome Pires, books 1-5 written by Tomé Pires and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1990 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. G. HAMILTON (of Liverpool.)
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Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book A New Key to Unlock Every Kingdom, State, and Province in the Known World ... Sacred Geography ... Antient and Modern Geography, Etc written by A. G. HAMILTON (of Liverpool.) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A G. Hamilton
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Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book A new key to unlock every kingdom, state, and province in the known world written by A G. Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. A. Murray
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Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Geographical and Statistical Hand-book: Or, Key to Every Kingdom, State, and Province in the Known World. With a Correct Return of the Census of Great Britain and Ireland for 1841 ... written by J. A. Murray and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Bell
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Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific written by James Bell and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nico F. Declercq
Publisher : Nico F. Declercq
ISBN 13 : 9083176940
Total Pages : 2090 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (831 download)
Download or read book The Desclergues of la Villa Ducal de Montblanc, Second Edition Omnibus written by Nico F. Declercq and published by Nico F. Declercq. This book was released on 2024-06-23 with total page 2090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Desclergues of la Villa Ducal de Montblanc (2nd edition) is a comprehensive ancestral chronicle, meticulously tracing the Desclergues family lineage from the Greek era through the Villa Ducal de Montblanc in Tarragona to the present in Belgium. This omnibus edition compiles the entire acclaimed series, offering an exhaustive account of the Desclergues of Montblanc alongside the author's other ancestral lines, including de Patin, de Patin de Langemark, Lesage, Benoit, Den Dauw, 't Kint, Surmont, de Croock, Ardan, Lammens, Decaestecker, and de Silva of Uduwara in Sri Lanka. This scholarly work is enriched by a comprehensive DNA analysis, providing genetic depth to the historical narrative. Each family line is intricately contextualized within its historical setting, with facsimile images of archival records offering tangible evidence of the past. This beautifully illustrated book presents a visually engaging experience, enhancing historical insights and making it an invaluable resource for students, historians, and anyone passionate about genealogical studies. Nico Felicien Declercq, a full professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is a distinguished scholar. With a Ph.D. from Ghent University and an MSc from the Catholic University of Leuven, his prolific academic career encompasses numerous published works. His passion for history and genealogy led him to meticulously document his ancestral lineage, culminating in this comprehensive work. Professor Declercq's interdisciplinary approach and dedication to rigorous research have earned him a reputation for excellence in the scientific community and among genealogical enthusiasts. He is also the author of several philosophical novels published under a pseudonym.
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Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Ceylon Journal of Historical and Social Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fernão de Queyroz
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Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Temporal and Spiritual Conquest of Ceylon written by Fernão de Queyroz and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
