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Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony
Sujit Sivasundaram
Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony
Sujit Sivasundaram
How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? This title explores how the British organized the process of "islanding," aiming to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography.
344 pages, 33 halftones, 2 maps
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | August 5, 2013 |
ISBN13 | 9780226038223 |
Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 384 |
Dimensions | 163 × 236 × 26 mm · 672 g |
Language | English |
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