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(Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia. By Zoltán Biedermann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii, 255 pp. ISBN: 9780198823391 (cloth).
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(Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia. By Zoltán Biedermann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii, 255 pp. ISBN: 9780198823391 (cloth).
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