(Dis)connected Empires
Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia
Price: 1100.00 INR
ISBN:
9780198863939
Publication date:
31/01/2020
Hardback
272 pages
234.0x156.0mm
Price: 1100.00 INR
ISBN:
9780198863939
Publication date:
31/01/2020
Hardback
272 pages
234.0x156.0mm
Zoltán Biedermann
- Explores current debates on global and connected history to ask questions about conquest and colonization
- Combines local and global narratives to explore early modern imperial ideas in Europe and South Asia
- Argues that diplomacy and mutal understanding can in fact lead to one party becoming subjugated
Rights: OUP UK (Indian Territory)
Zoltán Biedermann
Description
(Dis)connected Empires takes the reader on a global journey to explore the triangle formed during the sixteenth century between the Portuguese empire, the empire of Kotte in Sri Lanka, and the Catholic Monarchy of the Spanish Habsburgs. It explores nine decades of connections, cross-cultural diplomacy, and dialogue, to answer one troubling question: why, in the end, did one side decide to conquer the other?
To find the answer, Biedermann explores the imperial ideas that shaped the politics of Renaissance Iberia and sixteenth-century Sri Lanka. (Dis)connected Empires argues that, whilst some of these ideas and the political idioms built around them were perceived as commensurate by the various parties involved, differences also emerged early on. This prepared the ground for a new kind of conquest politics, which changed the inter-imperial game at the end of the sixteenth century. The transition from suzerainty-driven to sovereignty-fixated empire-building changed the face of Lankan and Iberian politics forever, and is of relevance to global historians at large. Through its scrutiny of diplomacy, political letter-writing, translation practices, warfare, cartography, and art, (Dis)connected Empires paints a troubling panorama of connections breeding divergence and leading to communicational collapse. It examines a key chapter in the pre-history of British imperialism in Asia, highlighting how diplomacy and mutual understandings can, under certain conditions, produce conquest.
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.
Zoltán Biedermann
Table 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
Zoltán Biedermann
Zoltán Biedermann
Description
(Dis)connected Empires takes the reader on a global journey to explore the triangle formed during the sixteenth century between the Portuguese empire, the empire of Kotte in Sri Lanka, and the Catholic Monarchy of the Spanish Habsburgs. It explores nine decades of connections, cross-cultural diplomacy, and dialogue, to answer one troubling question: why, in the end, did one side decide to conquer the other?
To find the answer, Biedermann explores the imperial ideas that shaped the politics of Renaissance Iberia and sixteenth-century Sri Lanka. (Dis)connected Empires argues that, whilst some of these ideas and the political idioms built around them were perceived as commensurate by the various parties involved, differences also emerged early on. This prepared the ground for a new kind of conquest politics, which changed the inter-imperial game at the end of the sixteenth century. The transition from suzerainty-driven to sovereignty-fixated empire-building changed the face of Lankan and Iberian politics forever, and is of relevance to global historians at large. Through its scrutiny of diplomacy, political letter-writing, translation practices, warfare, cartography, and art, (Dis)connected Empires paints a troubling panorama of connections breeding divergence and leading to communicational collapse. It examines a key chapter in the pre-history of British imperialism in Asia, highlighting how diplomacy and mutual understandings can, under certain conditions, produce conquest.
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.
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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
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