The sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics [Audiobook] download free by John Clifford Holt
- Listen audiobook: The sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics
- Author: John Clifford Holt
- Release date: 2011/3/14
- Publisher: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780822349822
- Rating: 8.07 of 10
- Votes: 703
- Review by: Wesson Chilton
- Review rating: 9.39 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/11
- Duration: 9H50M in 256 kbps (158.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-12
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, FLAC, Apple Lossless, WMA Lossless, WAV, WMA, AAC, MP3 (compression EML, TAR.BZ, ZIP, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 792
- Includes a PDF summary of 64 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 46M2S (12.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India. The island's recorded history of more than two and a half millennia encompasses waves of immigration from the South Asian subcontinent, the formation of Sinhala Buddhist and Tamil Hindu civilizations, the arrival of Arab Muslim traders, and European colonization by the Portuguese, then the Dutch, and finally the British. Selected texts depict perceptions of the country's multiple linguistic and religious communities, as well as its political travails after independence in 1948, especially the ethnic violence that recurred from the 1950s until 2009, when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were defeated by the Sri Lankan government's armed forces. This wide-ranging anthology covers the aboriginal Veddhas, the earliest known inhabitants of the island; the Kings of Kandy, Sri Lanka's last indigenous dynasty; twenty-first-century women who leave the island to work as housemaids in the Middle East; the forty thousand Sri Lankans killed by the tsunami in December 2004; and, through cutting-edge journalism and heart-wrenching poetry, the protracted violence that has scarred the country's contemporary political history. Along with fifty-four images of paintings, sculptures, and architecture, The Sri Lanka Reader includes more than ninety classic and contemporary texts written by Sri Lankans and foreigners.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Asian History, Regional Studies, Guidebooks
- Download servers: Google Drive, Torrent, pCloud, Hotfile, MEGA. Compressed in EML, TAR.BZ, ZIP, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 44.71 USD
- Dimensions: 156x235x46.99mm
- Weight: 1,106.77g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: North Carolina, United States
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