(Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia. Zoltán Biedermann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xvi + 256 pp. $85

Much like Mexico and Peru, it underwent a conquest phase in the sixteenth century that inaugurated a long period of colonial occupation under three different European regimes: Biedermann's study addresses two concerns, one dealing with the theories surrounding encounter and empire, and another...

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Published inRenaissance quarterly Vol. 74; no. 1; pp. 278 - 280
Main Author Brockey, Liam Matthew
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.04.2021
Subjects
16th century
Diplomacy
Political history
Politics
Renaissance period
Asia
Sri Lanka
Portugal
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Summary:Much like Mexico and Peru, it underwent a conquest phase in the sixteenth century that inaugurated a long period of colonial occupation under three different European regimes: Biedermann's study addresses two concerns, one dealing with the theories surrounding encounter and empire, and another offering a political history of Iberian relations with Lankan kings in the sixteenth century. While this new study offers a compelling means for understanding variations on the theme of conquest that attributes agency and power to Sinhalese actors, it does so almost exclusively with European sources.
ISSN:0034-4338
1935-0236
DOI:10.1017/rqx.2020.353