Author: Wesley S. Muthiah
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
On the experiences of Mark Anthony Lyster Bracegirdle, b. 1912, an Englishman and his role in Sri Lankan politics.
The Bracegirdle Affair
Author: Wesley S. Muthiah
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
On the experiences of Mark Anthony Lyster Bracegirdle, b. 1912, an Englishman and his role in Sri Lankan politics.
Publisher:
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
On the experiences of Mark Anthony Lyster Bracegirdle, b. 1912, an Englishman and his role in Sri Lankan politics.
The Bracegirdle
Author: Burris Jenkins
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
A History of Sri Lanka
Author: K M de Silva
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351182398
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Sri Lanka is an ancient civilization, shaped and thrust into the modern globalizing world by its colonial experience. With its own unique problems, many of them historical legacies, it is a nation trying to maintain a democratic, pluralistic state structure while struggling to come to terms with separatist aspirations. This is a complex story, and there is perhaps no better person to present it in reasoned, scholarly terms than K.M. de Silva, Sri Lanka’s most distinguished and prolific historian. A History of Sri Lanka, first published in 1981, has established itself as the standard work on the subject. This fully revised edition, in light of the most recent research, brings the story right up to the early years of the twenty-first century. The book provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of Sri Lanka’s development—from a classical Buddhist society and irrigation economy, to its emergence as a tropical colony producing some of the world’s most important cash crops, such as cinnamon, tea, rubber and coconut, and finally as an Asian democracy. It is a study of the political vicissitudes of Sri Lanka’s ancient civilization and the successive phases of Portuguese, Dutch and British colonial rule. The unfortunate consequences of becoming a centre of ethnic tension and Sri Lanka’s long-standing relationship with India are also discussed. Exhaustively researched and analytical, this book is an invaluable reference source for students of ancient, colonial and post-colonial societies, ethnic conflict and democratic transitions, as well as for all those who simply want to get a feel of the rich and varied texture of Sri Lanka’s long history.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351182398
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Sri Lanka is an ancient civilization, shaped and thrust into the modern globalizing world by its colonial experience. With its own unique problems, many of them historical legacies, it is a nation trying to maintain a democratic, pluralistic state structure while struggling to come to terms with separatist aspirations. This is a complex story, and there is perhaps no better person to present it in reasoned, scholarly terms than K.M. de Silva, Sri Lanka’s most distinguished and prolific historian. A History of Sri Lanka, first published in 1981, has established itself as the standard work on the subject. This fully revised edition, in light of the most recent research, brings the story right up to the early years of the twenty-first century. The book provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of Sri Lanka’s development—from a classical Buddhist society and irrigation economy, to its emergence as a tropical colony producing some of the world’s most important cash crops, such as cinnamon, tea, rubber and coconut, and finally as an Asian democracy. It is a study of the political vicissitudes of Sri Lanka’s ancient civilization and the successive phases of Portuguese, Dutch and British colonial rule. The unfortunate consequences of becoming a centre of ethnic tension and Sri Lanka’s long-standing relationship with India are also discussed. Exhaustively researched and analytical, this book is an invaluable reference source for students of ancient, colonial and post-colonial societies, ethnic conflict and democratic transitions, as well as for all those who simply want to get a feel of the rich and varied texture of Sri Lanka’s long history.
The Ornament of Action
Author: Peter Holland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521220483
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Peter Holland brings together the disciplines of theatre history and literary criticism in a close study of the staging of plays in the Restoration.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521220483
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Peter Holland brings together the disciplines of theatre history and literary criticism in a close study of the staging of plays in the Restoration.
Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater
Author: Diana Solomon
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1644530775
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Often perceived as merely formulaic or historical documents, dramatic prologues and epilogues – players’ comic, poetic bids for the audience’s good opinion – became essential parts of Restoration theater, appearing in over 90 percent of performed and printed plays between 1660 and 1714. Their popularity coincided with the rise of the English actress, and Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater unites these elements in the first book-length study on the subject. It finds that these paratexts provided the first sanctioned space for actresses in Britain to voice ideas in public, communicate directly with other women, and perform comedy – arguably the most powerful type of speech, and one that enabled interrogation of misogynist social practices. This book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epilogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1644530775
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Often perceived as merely formulaic or historical documents, dramatic prologues and epilogues – players’ comic, poetic bids for the audience’s good opinion – became essential parts of Restoration theater, appearing in over 90 percent of performed and printed plays between 1660 and 1714. Their popularity coincided with the rise of the English actress, and Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater unites these elements in the first book-length study on the subject. It finds that these paratexts provided the first sanctioned space for actresses in Britain to voice ideas in public, communicate directly with other women, and perform comedy – arguably the most powerful type of speech, and one that enabled interrogation of misogynist social practices. This book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epilogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Nēthrā
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Category : Ethnic relations
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
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Category : Ethnic relations
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Sri Lanka
Author: Charles A. Gunawardena
Publisher: Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
ISBN: 9781932705485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Over 1,100 alphabetically arranged entries examine the history, geography, people, government, economy, art, and religions of Sri Lanka.
Publisher: Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
ISBN: 9781932705485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Over 1,100 alphabetically arranged entries examine the history, geography, people, government, economy, art, and religions of Sri Lanka.
The Art of Freedom
Author: Nico Slate
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 082299139X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903–1988) was a prominent socialist, anticolonial and antiracist activist, champion of women’s rights, and advocate for the arts and crafts. Defying the borders of gender, nation, and race, her efforts spanned social movements and played a leading role in the creation of modern India and the development of the Global South. In The Art of Freedom, Nico Slate showcases new archival materials to document Kamaladevi’s campaign to become the first woman elected to provincial office; her confrontation with Gandhi that helped open the salt protests of 1930 to women; her leadership of the All India Women’s Conference and the Congress Socialist Party; her pioneering work with refugees during the Partition of India in 1947; the major impact she had on the arts in postcolonial India; and her own career on the stage and screen. Slate also draws upon underexplored details from her personal life, providing new context for her experiences as a child widow, her remarriage to the mercurial actor/poet Harin Chattopadhyay, and her divorce (among the first civil divorces in modern India). Taken as a whole, Kamaladevi’s life offers a uniquely revealing vantage point on the making of modern India—a vantage point that centers the interconnections between struggles often seen as distinct, and that reminds us of the full promise of Indian democracy.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 082299139X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903–1988) was a prominent socialist, anticolonial and antiracist activist, champion of women’s rights, and advocate for the arts and crafts. Defying the borders of gender, nation, and race, her efforts spanned social movements and played a leading role in the creation of modern India and the development of the Global South. In The Art of Freedom, Nico Slate showcases new archival materials to document Kamaladevi’s campaign to become the first woman elected to provincial office; her confrontation with Gandhi that helped open the salt protests of 1930 to women; her leadership of the All India Women’s Conference and the Congress Socialist Party; her pioneering work with refugees during the Partition of India in 1947; the major impact she had on the arts in postcolonial India; and her own career on the stage and screen. Slate also draws upon underexplored details from her personal life, providing new context for her experiences as a child widow, her remarriage to the mercurial actor/poet Harin Chattopadhyay, and her divorce (among the first civil divorces in modern India). Taken as a whole, Kamaladevi’s life offers a uniquely revealing vantage point on the making of modern India—a vantage point that centers the interconnections between struggles often seen as distinct, and that reminds us of the full promise of Indian democracy.
The First English Actresses
Author: Elizabeth Howe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521422109
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book describes how and why women were permitted to act on the public stage after 1660 in England.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521422109
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book describes how and why women were permitted to act on the public stage after 1660 in England.
London
Author: John Heneage Jesse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description