(Dis)connected Empires - Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, Making of a Habsburg

(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.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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.

Summary

(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.

Additional text

... a work that, through the dialogues it maintains ... overcomes Iberian insularity ... draws comparisons and contrasts with other early modern societies, including those of Early America.

Product details

• Authors: Zoltan Biedermann, Zoltán Biedermann, Zoltan (Associate Professor of Portugu Biedermann, Zoltan (Associate Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Biedermann, Zoltan (Senior Lecturer in Luso-Brazil Biedermann, Zoltan (University College London) Biedermann
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9780198823391
• ISBN: 978-0-19-882339-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Portugal, Sri Lanka, HISTORY / World, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, General & world history, Colonialism & imperialism, c 1500 onwards to present day, Colonialism and imperialism, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, History and Archaeology, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance