(Dis)connected Empires Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia
- Submitting institution
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University College London
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 13588
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1093/oso/9780198823391.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198823391
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book of 110,000 words is the result of a decade and a half of work with an exceptionally large and complex corpus of Iberian (Portuguese and Spanish) and South Asian (mostly Sri Lankan) archival and secondary materials. It proposes, on grounds of an engagement with three distinct historiographical traditions, a fundamental reassessment of the "connected histories" paradigm currently dominating early global history writing, shifting the emphasis critically towards a carefully intertwined analysis of connecting and disconnecting factors. It covers a century of early imperial interactions and combines textual analysis with novel approaches to cartography and imperial space.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This book is a very heavily reworked version of my PhD dissertation, enriched with new research over more than a decade. As such, it naturally contains some materials that have been the object of previous publications, most importantly the following article, included in the previous REF: ?The Matrioshka Principle and How it was Overcome: Portuguese and Habsburg Attitudes toward Imperial Authority in Sri Lanka and the Responses of the Rulers of Kotte (1506-1656)?, Journal of Early Modern History, 13, 4 (2009), pp. 265-310. The argument in the book goes far beyond that of the article.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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