A History of Sri LankaPenguin UK, 2005/08/25 - 800 ページ 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. |
目次
Colonizers and Settlers | |
The Anuradhapura Kingdom I | |
The Polonnaruva Kingdom | |
The Fragmentation of the Sri Lankan Polity | |
The Periphery Stakes a Claim | |
The Crisis of the Sixteenth Century | |
A Plantation Economy 18501910 | |
Peasant Agriculture 18501910 | |
The Consolidation of British Rule | |
Education and Social Change in the Late Nineteenth Century | |
Religion and the Rise of Nationalism c 18701900 | |
Politics and Constitutional Reform in the Late Nineteenth Century | |
Political Change in the Early Twentieth Century | |
Elite Conflict and the Ceylon National Congress 192128 | |
Portuguese Rule in the Maritime Regions c 160058 | |
The Kandyan Kingdom at Bay 165887 | |
The Struggle for Mastery over Sri Lanka c 16801766 | |
Trade and Agriculture Under the | |
The VOC in Sri Lanka The Last Phase 176796 | |
The Impact of Dutch Rule | |
Religion Literature and the Arts in the Kandyan Kingdom | |
The English East India Company in Sri Lanka 17961802 | |
The Fall of the Kandyan Kingdom | |
Economic and Social Change in the Early Nineteenth Century 180232 | |
Crown Colony Government 180232 | |
An Era of Reform and Reconstruction 183350 | |
Social and Economic Change in the Early Twentieth Century 1910 | |
The Donoughmore Commission and Its Recommendations 192731 | |
The Politics of the Transfer of Power The First Phase 193142 | |
S Senanayake and the Passage to Dominion Status 194247 | |
Social and Economic Change in the Donoughmore Era 193147 | |
Literature and the Arts The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | |
Linguistic Nationalism and a Socialist Experiment 19561977 | |
A Change of Regime 197794 | |
and After | |
Further Reading | |
Bibliography | |
Glossary | |
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