Description: The peoples of Sri Lanka have participated in far-flung trading networks, religious formations, and Asian and European empires for millennia. This interdisciplinary volume sets out to draw Sri Lanka into the field of Asian and Global History by showing how the latest wave of scholarship has explored the island as a 'crossroads'.
Brief description: Zoltán Biedermann is a senior lecturer and head of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at UCL, London, and the author of The Portuguese in Sri Lanka and South India.
Review Quotes:
'[Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History] brings us views of well-published scholars, and the collection conforms to the highest standards of the historical enterprise. Historians in Sri Lanka and elsewhere will profit by it, and it should be in every major library.'
Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities