商品簡介
In this structural analysis of changing social and economic relations in western Sri Lanka in the mid-18th century, Dewasiri (history, U. of Colombo, Sri Lanka) explores the impact of colonial Dutch attempts to diversify economic activities, systematize mechanisms for extracting revenue, and wrest power away for indigenous chiefs on the relationship between the peasant and the production process and among the peasants, the Dutch United East India Company, and the indigenous chiefs (who were the other main contenders for the expropriation of the peasant's surplus). By shifting attention away from the Manichean dichotomy of colonizer/colonized and towards peasant strategies of dealing with those who would expropriate their produce, Dewasiri reveals a more complex picture of social conflict. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
N. R. Dewasiri (1965), Ph.D. (2007) in History, Leiden University, is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Colombo. His main interests are peasant history in pre-colonial and colonial Sri Lanka and ethnic ideologies in late and post-colonial Sri Lanka.
