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Cinnamon
A History of Taste and Empire
Inbunden, 2026
280 kr
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The sweeping cultural history of a spice so coveted it launched empires across oceans, reshaped global trade, and bound generations of Sri Lankan peelers to colonial rule.For millennia, cinnamon has been treasured for its healing powers and warm, unmistakable aroma. But behind its familiar scent …
Sri Lanka in the Modern Age
A History
E-bok, 2014
322 kr
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Sri Lanka in the Modern Age recounts the modern history of the island in an accessible yet unconventional manner. Where other histories have tended to focus on the state''s failure to accommodate the needs and demands of minority communities, Wickramasinghe places their claims alongside the …
Sri Lanka in the Modern Age
A History
E-bok, 2014
294 kr
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Sri Lanka in the Modern Age recounts the modern history of the island in an accessible yet unconventional manner. Where other histories have tended to focus on the state''s failure to accommodate the needs and demands of minority communities, Wickramasinghe places their claims alongside the …
Slave in a Palanquin
Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka
Inbunden, 2020
1245 kr
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For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri Lanka—then Ceylon—when the British conquered the …
Slave in a Palanquin
Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka
Häftad, 2020
317 kr
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For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri Lanka—then Ceylon—when the British conquered the …
Metallic Modern
Everyday Machines in Colonial Sri Lanka
Inbunden, 2014
1979 kr
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Everyday life in the Crown colony of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was characterized by a direct encounter of people with modernity through the consumption and use of foreign machines – in particular, the Singer sewing machine, but also the gramophone, tramway, bicycle and varieties of industrial equipment. …
Metallic Modern
Everyday Machines in Colonial Sri Lanka
E-bok, 2014
302 kr
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Everyday life in the Crown colony of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was characterized by a direct encounter of people with modernity through the consumption and use of foreign machines – in particular, the Singer sewing machine, but also the gramophone, tramway, bicycle and varieties of industrial equipment. …
Being a Slave
Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean
Av Alicia Schrikker, Nira Wickramasinghe
Häftad, 2020
774 kr
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This multidisciplinary volume brings together scholars and writers who try to come to terms with the histories and legacies of European slavery in the Indian Ocean. The volume discusses a variety of qualitative data on the experience of being a slave in order to recover ordinary lives and, …
Monsoon Asia
A Reader on South and Southeast Asia
Av David Henley, Nira Wickramasinghe
Häftad, 2023
716 kr
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Monsoon Asia was the first venue of global trade, a zone of encounters, exchanges, and cultural diffusion. This book demonstrates the continuing fertility of the Monsoon Asia perspective as an aid to understanding what South/Southeast Asia, as a connected space, has been in the past and is today. …
Being a Slave
Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean
Av Alicia Schrikker, Nira Wickramasinghe
Inbunden, 2023
588 kr
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This multidisciplinary volume brings together scholars and writers who try to come to terms with the histories and legacies of European slavery in the Indian Ocean. The volume discusses a variety of qualitative data on the experience of being a slave in order to recover ordinary lives and, …
