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Mutual Conquests: Ceylon and the Making of Western Imperialism in Asia, 1506-1598

相互征服：锡兰与西方帝国主义在亚洲的形成，1506-1598 年

基本信息

批准号：
AH/J004502/1
负责人：
Zoltan Biedermann
金额：
$ 4.93万
依托单位：
Birkbeck, University of London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2012 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FJ004502%2F1
关键词：
Mutual Conquests Ceylon Making Western

项目摘要

The principal aim of this project is to complete a research monograph on a central but under-explored chapter in the making of European imperialism in Asia. The book proposal was recently accepted by the University of Notre Dame Press for a renowned series on the History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds. The submission of the final manuscript is expected in July 2012. Based on research conducted in Spanish, Portuguese, British, Indian and Sri Lankan archives for an unpublished dissertation written in Portuguese (2006), the book aims to make a major contribution to the field of Early Modern History by exploring (and clarifying) the emerging "connected histories" paradigm. This paradigm stipulates that it is possible to analyse European and Asian historical processes in connection with each other following the idea that, despite all cultural differences, the parts involved were able to establish historically relevant dialogues. Recent scholarship - including the research that has fed into the present project - suggests that European imperialism did not arrive in Sri Lanka as a sudden shock wave entirely generated in distant places. It grew slowly over a long period of time, and it was to a significant extent produced within the island rather than outside of it. Local ideas of imperial unification, deeply rooted in South Asian traditions of hierarchical kingship and Empire, were transfused into the Iberian sphere through a complex set of communicational channels before they unfolded, in the minds of Iberian imperial administrators, their full transformative potential. These findings are important not only in the context of British academia, where both South Asian and Iberian History have long-standing traditions of excellence. A new reading of the sixteenth century is equally important in Sri Lanka where the instrumentalisation of colonial history by radical nationalists is reaching an all-time high in the wake of the government's military victory over the LTTE in 2010. Manichean logics that demonise things non-Sinhalese in the past as well as the present are being deployed systematically with disastrous consequences for the social and cultural tissue of the country. To argue that European power in the island was not exclusively the result of exogenous historical processes does at times stir up emotions - as earlier presentations of my research have done in Colombo in 2005 and 2009 - yet it also serves to return historical agency to certain sectors of the colonized society, an indispensable condition for an open and critical debate about the roots of imperial domination.The book will also contribute to a critical reassessment of imperial history in Britain, Spain and especially in Portugal, where a tendency to minimise the impacts of expansion and to over-emphasise the "friendly" nature of the early imperial encounters has become palpable in recent years. By offering a nuanced analysis of the transformations that Iberian policies overseas underwent four centuries ago, the proposed work constitutes a cornerstone in the critique of simplistic evaluations of two European countries' imperial past, which may in its turn add to its relevance to the core debates on British imperialism itself.

该项目的主要目的是完成一个研究专著的核心，但在亚洲的欧洲帝国主义的决策下探索的一章。这本书的提案最近被圣母大学出版社接受，用于西班牙和葡萄牙世界的历史，语言和文化的着名系列。预计将于2012年7月提交定稿。基于对西班牙、葡萄牙、英国、印度和斯里兰卡档案馆的研究，为一篇未发表的葡萄牙语论文（2006年），这本书旨在通过探索（和澄清）新兴的“连接历史”范式，为早期现代史领域做出重大贡献。这一范式规定，有可能分析欧洲和亚洲的历史进程相互联系的想法，尽管所有的文化差异，所涉及的部分能够建立历史相关的对话。最近的学术研究--包括对本项目的研究--表明，欧洲帝国主义抵达斯里兰卡并不是完全在遥远的地方产生的突然冲击波。它在很长一段时间内缓慢发展，在很大程度上是在岛上产生的，而不是在岛外。当地的帝国统一思想深深植根于南亚的等级制王权和帝国传统，通过一套复杂的沟通渠道被灌输到伊比利亚范围内，然后在伊比利亚帝国管理者的头脑中充分发挥其变革潜力。这些发现不仅在英国学术界很重要，南亚和伊比利亚历史都有悠久的优秀传统。对16世纪的新阅读在斯里兰卡同样重要，在2010年政府对猛虎组织的军事胜利之后，激进民族主义者对殖民历史的工具化达到了历史最高点。摩尼教的逻辑，妖魔化的东西非僧伽罗在过去以及现在正在系统地部署与灾难性后果的社会和文化组织的国家。认为欧洲在该岛的权力并不完全是外来历史进程的结果，有时确实会激起情绪-正如我在2005年和2009年在科隆博所做的研究报告-但它也有助于将历史代理权归还给殖民社会的某些部门，对帝国统治的根源进行公开和批判性辩论的不可或缺的条件。这本书也将有助于对英国，西班牙，特别是葡萄牙的帝国历史进行批判性的重新评估，近年来，一种将扩张的影响降到最低，并过分强调早期帝国遭遇的“友好”性质的倾向变得明显起来。通过对四个世纪前伊比利亚海外政策的转变进行细致入微的分析，拟议中的工作构成了对两个欧洲国家帝国历史的简单化评价的批评的基石，这反过来又可能增加其与英帝国主义本身的核心辩论的相关性。