(Dis)connected Empires : Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia.

Biedermann, Zoltán.
(Dis)connected Empires :
DK/0249
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9780192556363 (electronic bk.)
9780198823391
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Biedermann, Zoltán.
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©2018.
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1 online resource (272 pages)
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Cover -- (Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Maps -- Introduction: Querying the Origins of European Conquest in Asia -- GLOBAL HISTORIES BETWEEN CONNECTION AND DISCONNECTION -- CHAPTERS OF THE LUSO-LANKAN ENCOUNTER -- 1: (Dis)connecting Empires: Towards a Critical History of Early Modern Imperial Connections -- 'CONNECTED HISTORY' AND THE PROBLEM OF SCALE -- 'CONNECTED HISTORY' AND THE PROBLEM OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION -- FROM 'COMMERCE' TO 'CONQUEST'? TACKLING THE GHOST OF PHASEOLOGY -- THE PERVASIVENESS OF VIOLENCE: REVISITING THE 'AGE OF PARTNERSHIP' -- EMPIRES AS NETWORKS: THE PROBLEM OF MAPPING IMPERIAL SPACE -- EMPIRES AS HIERARCHICAL BODIES: LAYERED SOVEREIGNTIES IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE -- ASTRAEA GOES GLOBAL: TOWARDS A CONNECTED HISTORY OF THE IMPERIAL THEME -- 2: Lords of the Land, Lords of the Sea: Establishing an Imperial Dialogue Against the Odds -- NOT QUITE LIKE CIPANGO: THE VANISHING MYTH OF TAPROBANE -- AN ENCOUNTER OF LITTLE SIGNIFICANCE: THE PORTUGUESE AT COLOMBO IN 1506 -- ON THE OTHER SIDE: LANKAN POLITICAL FRAGMENTATION AS A PULL FACTOR -- SRI LANKAN POLITICS AND THE RATIONALE OF CO-OPTING FOREIGNERS -- DISCOVERING THE PORTUGUESE: THE LANKAN PERSPECTIVE IN 1506 -- GREAT EXPECTATIONS: NEGOTIATING THE FIRST FORT AT COLOMBO, 1513-1519 -- HUMBLE RESULTS: THALASSOCRACY AND MARGINALITY, 1519-1524 -- 3: The Matrioshka Principle and Its Discontents: Connecting Imperial Ideas Across the Continents -- DISPERSAL AND A NEW BEGINNING: GO-BETWEENS AT KŌṬṬE AND COLOMBO, 1524-1527 -- ELITE TROOPS FROM FOREIGN LANDS: THE LANKAN LOGICS OF INCORPORATION -- A STRANGE CONVERGENCE: KŌṬṬE AND A PLAN TO DEMILITARIZE THE ESTADO.
CONNECTING CONFLICTS: THE REGIONALIZATION OF THE SRI LANKAN WARS, 1528-1537 -- A FAILED CONNECTION: (MIS)UNDERSTANDINGS IN THE MILITARY SEASON OF 1538 -- EXPLAINING THE MATRIOSHKA PRINCIPLE: KŌṬṬE'S DIPLOMATIC OFFENSIVE, 1541-1543 -- THE LIMITS OF CONNECTABILITY: EMERGING DISJUNCTIONS -- 4: Conversion Diplomacy: Lankan Imperial Projects and the Politics of Catholic Universalism -- OPPORTUNITY CRISIS IN THE ESTADO AND LANKAN POLITICAL PROJECTS -- IMAGINING CONQUEST IN THE EAST: THE BOUNDS OF AN IDEA -- FROM LUNACY TO POLICY: INTERVENTIONISM AND RELIGIOUS LEGITIMATION -- A NEW LAND IN THE STRAITS: MILITARY PLANS FOR JAFFNA (1540-1545) -- BETWEEN THALASSOCRACY AND 'CAKRAVARTISM': THE PRINCES OF KŌṬṬE, 1543-1545 -- THE 'MATRIOSHKA PRINCIPLE' STOLEN: DOM JOÃO PROPOSES TO JOHN I I I -- AN ELDORADO IN THE HIGH MOUNTAINS OF CEYLON: KANDY, 1542-1545 -- 5: Moving into the Native Ground: Turmoil and Diplomatic Diversification in the Middle of the Century -- BETWEEN MIDDLE AND NATIVE GROUND: SRI LANKA'S PLACE IN BORDERLAND HISTORY -- A TIME FOR HAWKS: MOUNTING PRESSURES FOR AN INTERVENTION IN CEYLON -- TO ROME, WITH LOVE: ASCENDING POLITICAL IDEAS IN THE COURTE DURÉE -- DIPLOMATIC FRAGMENTATION, 1546-1547 -- A STEP TOWARDS THE ABYSS: THE FIRST PORTUGUESE DISASTER, 1548-1550 -- DREAMS, BUT NO STRATEGY: SRI LANKA AS A NEW ELDORADO (1550-1551) -- 6: Translatio Imperii in the Tropics: Colombo, the Spectre of Cortés in Asia, and the Unification of Iberian Empires -- OF REBELS AND CONQUERORS: THE LOCAL CONTINGENCIES OF EMPIRE BUILDING -- CONVERTING THE KING OF KŌṬṬE: DHARMAPĀLA'S DEAL IN 1557 -- A NERVE-CUTTING INTERLUDE: CONSTANTINO DE BRAGANÇA IN JAFFNA AND MANNĀR -- CORTÉS IN THE EAST INDIES? EARLY SIGNS OF A SPANISH CONNECTION -- KŌṬṬE, COLOMBO AND THE MAKING OF A NEW IMPERIAL CAPITAL -- TRANSLATIO IMPERII, THE LANKAN WAY: THE DONATION OF KŌṬṬE (1580).
TRANSLATIO IMPERII, THE HABSBURG WAY -- 7: From Allies to Invaders: Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of Global Iberian Imperialism -- ATTEMPTING THE CONQUEST OF KANDY: RĀJASIṂHA I , NOT PHILLIP I I -- DEFENDING THE STATUS QUO: THE GAMA-BRAGANÇA LOBBY AT WORK -- OVERCOMING THE IMPASSE (1): SIGNS OF IMPERIAL REFORM, 1587-8 -- OVERCOMING THE IMPASSE (2): PRODUCTIVE COMMUNICATIONAL GAPS -- THE ADVENT OF THE CAPTAINCY-GENERAL OF THE CONQUEST OF CEYLON, 1591-1594 -- INFLUENCE OR CONFLUENCE? SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE FORCES IN TRANSITION -- THE LOCAL AND THE REGIONAL: IMAGINING CONQUEST IN GOA, COLOMBO, AND MALACCA -- REFORMING THE EMPIRE THROUGH THE CONQUEST OF CEYLON -- 8: Anatomy of a Divergence: Habsburg Sovereignty and the End of the Lankan Island Empire -- COMPATIBILITIES AND INCOMPATIBILITIES -- FROM SISYPHUS TO LEVIATHAN: RE-MAPPING THE CONQUEST AROUND 1600 -- APOCALYPSE THEN AND NOW: THE REINVENTION OF 'CEYLON' -- Conclusion: (Dis)connected Histories and the Beginnings of European Conquest in Asia -- TERRITORIALIZATION IN GLOBAL EARLY MODERNITY -- IMAGINING THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL -- DISSONANCES IN THE POLYPHONY OF EARLY MODERN EURASIA -- Glossary and List of Rulers -- KINGS OF PORTUGAL -- KINGS OF KŌṬṬE -- KINGS OF SĪTĀVAKA -- KINGS OF UDARAṬA/KANDY -- KINGS OF JAFFNA -- GOVERNORS AND VICEROYS AT GOA -- Bibliography -- ARCHIVAL MATERIALS -- PUBLISHED PRIMARY MATERIALS -- SECONDARY LITERATURE -- Index.
Özet, vb.
(Dis)connected Empires offers a new contribution to the current debate on the role of global history in a world of resurgent nationalisms. Biedermann explores the world of early diplomatic connections between Europe and Asia in the Renaissance, focusing on the rarely told story of Portuguese encounters with the Buddhist kingdoms of Sri Lanka.
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Conquerors-History..
Sri Lanka-Foreign relations..
Portugal-Foreign relations-Sri Lanka.
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