Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History

by Alan Strathern and Zoltán Biedermann

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1013287525
• ISBN13: 9781013287527
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"