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Waves Across the South

A New History of Revolution and Empire

By: Sujit Sivasundaram

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Waves Across the South

A New History of Revolution and Empire

By: Sujit Sivasundaram

Per the UK publisher William Collins's promotional copy: "There is a quarter of this planet which is often forgotten in the histories that are told in the West. This quarter is an oceanic one, pulsating with winds and waves, tides and coastlines, islands and beaches. The Indian and Pacific Oceans constitute that forgotten quarter, brought together here for the first time in a sustained work of history." More specifically, Sivasundaram's aim in this book is to revisit the Age of Revolutions and Empire from the perspective of the Global South. Waves Across the South ranges from the Arabian Sea across the Indian Ocean to the Bay of Bengal, and onward to the South Pacific and Australia's Tasman Sea. As the Western empires (Dutch, French, but especially British) reached across these vast regions, echoes of the European revolutions rippled through them and encountered a host of indigenous political developments. Sivasundaram also opens the door to new and necessary conversations about environmental history in addition to the consequences of historical violence, the extraction of resources, and the indigenous futures that Western imperialism cut short"--

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University of Chicago Press

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022679041X

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9780226790411

Islanded

Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony

By: Sujit Sivasundaram

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Islanded

Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony

By: 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.

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Waves Across the South

A New History of Revolution and Empire

By: Sujit Sivasundaram

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A New History of Revolution and Empire

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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 8

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Claire Brock,Marwa Elshakry,Sujit Sivasundaram,Ralph O'Connor,Roger Luckhurst,Justin Sausman

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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 8

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Claire Brock,Marwa Elshakry,Sujit Sivasundaram,Ralph O'Connor,Roger Luckhurst,Justin Sausman

This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040246354

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9781040246351

Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 6

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Claire Brock,Marwa Elshakry,Sujit Sivasundaram,Ralph O'Connor,Roger Luckhurst,Justin Sausman

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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 6

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Claire Brock,Marwa Elshakry,Sujit Sivasundaram,Ralph O'Connor,Roger Luckhurst,Justin Sausman

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104024405X

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Islanded

Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony

By: Sujit Sivasundaram

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Islanded

Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony

By: Sujit Sivasundaram

How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain’s contemporaneous subjugation of the island of Sri Lanka. In Islanded, Sujit Sivasundaram reconsiders the arrival of British rule in South Asia as a dynamic and unfinished process of territorialization and state building, revealing that the British colonial project was framed by the island’s traditions and maritime placement and built in part on the model they provided. Using palm-leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka to read the official colonial archive, Sivasundaram tells the story of two sets of islanders in combat and collaboration. He explores how the British organized the process of “islanding”: they aimed to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography. But rather than serving as a radical rupture, he reveals, islanding recycled traditions the British learned from Kandy, a kingdom in the Sri Lankan highlands whose customs—from strategies of war to views of nature—fascinated the British. Picking up a range of unusual themes, from migration, orientalism, and ethnography to botany, medicine, and education, Islanded is an engaging retelling of the advent of British rule.

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022603836X

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Nature and the Godly Empire

Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795-1850

By: Sujit Sivasundaram

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Nature and the Godly Empire

Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795-1850

By: Sujit Sivasundaram

A study of the relations between nineteenth-century science and Christianity.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521848369

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9780521848367

Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 6

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Claire Brock,Marwa Elshakry,Sujit Sivasundaram,Ralph O'Connor,Roger Luckhurst,Justin Sausman

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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 6

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Claire Brock,Marwa Elshakry,Sujit Sivasundaram,Ralph O'Connor,Roger Luckhurst,Justin Sausman

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Victorian Science and Literature

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman

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Victorian Science and Literature

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman

This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component OCo what might be called 'the literature of science' OCo and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters.

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Routledge

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1781446822

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9781781446829

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Waves Across the South

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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 8

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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 6

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Nature and the Godly Empire

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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 6

Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 6

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