Islanded

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.

About the author

Sujit Sivasundaram is professor of world history and fellow of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of the prize-winning Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Product details

• Authors: Sujit Sivasundaram, Sivasundaram Sujit
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2013
• EAN: 9780226038223
• ISBN: 978-0-226-03822-3
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 235 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Sri Lanka, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, maritime history, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), HISTORY / Asia / South / General