Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: A History of Contested Identities (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780824830168)

Since the late 1970s civil war has left Sri Lanka in an almost permanent state of crisis; conventional histories of the country by liberal and Marxist scholars in the last two decades have thus tended to focus on the state's failure to accommodate the needs and demands of the minorities. The entire history of the twentieth century has been tied to this one key issue. Sri Lanka in the Modern Age offers a fresh perspective based on new research. Above all, the author has written a history of the peoples of Sri Lanka rather than a history of the nation-state.

Author: Nira Wickramasinghe
ISBN-10: 0824830164
ISBN-13: 9780824830168
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Language: English
Published: 03/31/2006
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 7.87h x 5.71w x 1.01d