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(Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia. By Zoltán Biedermann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii, 255 pp. ISBN: 9780198823391 (cloth).

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(Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia. By Zoltán Biedermann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii, 255 pp. ISBN: 9780198823391 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2020

Nira Wickramasinghe
Nira Wickramasinghe*
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n.k.wickramasinghe@hum.leidenuniv.nl
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 79 , Issue 1 , February 2020 , pp. 250 - 252
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020

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1 Abeyasinghe, Tikiri, Portuguese Rule in Ceylon, 1594–1612 (Colombo: Lake House, 1966)Google Scholar; de Silva, Chandra Richard, The Portuguese in Ceylon, 1617–1638 (Colombo: H. W. Cave, 1972)Google Scholar; Strathern, Alan, Kingship and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Sri Lanka: Portuguese Imperialism in a Buddhist Land (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)Google Scholar.

2 Much of the nationalist historiography on Portuguese rule belongs to the realm of popular history and relies on translations of Portuguese sources. See Perera, C. Gaston, The Portuguese Missionary in 16th and 17th Century Ceylon: The Spiritual Conquest (Colombo: Vijitha Yapa, 2009)Google Scholar.

3 Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, “Connected Histories: Notes towards a Reconfiguration of Early Modern Eurasia,” Modern Asian Studies 31, no. 3 (1997): 735–62CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 See Berkwitz, Stephen C., Buddhist Poetry and Colonialism: Alagiyavanna and the Portuguese in Sri Lanka (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.