Nira Wickramasinghe
Autore di Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: A History of Contested Identities. Nira Wickramasinghe
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Nira Wickramasinghe uncovers the traces of slavery in the history and memory of the Indian Ocean world, exploring moments of revolt in the lives of enslaved people in Sri Lanka in the wake of abolition, A deeply interdisciplinary book with a focus on recovering subaltern resistance, Slave in a mostra altro Palanquin offers a vital new portrait of the local and transnational aspects of the colonial-era Asian slave trade in the Indian Ocean. Nira Wickramasinghe is Chair Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at Leiden University. Her books include Metallic Modern: Everyday Machines in Colonial Sri Lanka (2014) and Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: A History (second edition, 2015). mostra meno
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- 1964-05-08
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