Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: A History

摘要: Now available as an updated second edition covering the brutal end of Sri Lanka's civil war and creeping state authoritarianism that has grown in its wake, Lanka Modern Age recounts island's modern history accessible yet unconventional manner. While most histories country published last twenty years have tended to focus on state's failure accommodate needs demands minority communities, this book places their claims alongside political, social economic other parties, associations groups, trac--ing lineages colonial period. Drawing from recent works well her own research field, Nira Wickramasinghe written above all a people Lanka, rather than nation-state.