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Alan Strathern

Author of Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History

4 Works 35 Members 0 Reviews

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Image credit: Alan Strathern [credit: University of Oxford]

Works by Alan Strathern

Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History (2019) 17 copies

Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History (2017) 12 copies

Kingship and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Sri Lanka: Portuguese Imperialism in a Buddhist Land (University of… (2007) 3 copies

Royal 'We', The: Sinhala Identity in the Dynastic State (2006) 3 copies

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Strathern, Alan Leiper
Birthdate: 1975-05-08
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Education: University of Oxford
University of London
Occupations: historian
Organizations: University of Oxford
Brasenose College, Oxford

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World History Association Book Prize

Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History (2020)

WHA Bentley Book Prize

Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History (2020)

Statistics

Works: 4
Members: 35
Popularity: #405,584
Rating: ½ 4.3

ISBNs: 12

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