Zoltan Biedermann

(Dis)Connected Empires

Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia

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Produktbeschreibung

(Dis)connected Empires offers a new contribution to the current debate on the role of global history in a world of resurgent nationalisms. Biedermann explores the world of early diplomatic connections between Europe and Asia in the Renaissance, focusing on the rarely told story of Portuguese encounters with the Buddhist kingdoms of Sri Lanka.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780198823391
• ISBN-10: 0198823398
• Artikelnr.: 52712263

Autorenporträt

Zoltán Biedermann, Associate Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at University College London, is a historian of early modern global connections with a focus on the Portuguese Empire in Asia. His interests include diplomacy, imperial ideas, cartography, and the politics of space. He received his PhD in 2006 from the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris and the Universidade Nova in Lisbon. He has been a research fellow at UCLA, Assistant Professor at Birkbeck College London, Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown University, and Maître de conférences invité at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations and Maps
Preface
Introduction
1: (Dis)connecting Empires
2: Lords of the Land, Lords of the Sea
3: The Matrioshka Principle and Its Discontents
4: Conversion Diplomacy
5: Moving into the Native Ground
6: Translatio Imperii in the Tropics
7: From Allies to Invaders
8: Anatomy of a Divergence
Conclusion
Glossary
List of Rulers
Bibliography