The Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th Century Colonial-Capitalist Discourse

✍ Scribed by Farish A. Noor

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Series: Asian History; 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Noor offers a close account of the construction of Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century by the forces of capitalism and imperialism.

✦ Table of Contents

Table Of Contents
A Note On The Language, Spelling And Pagination Of Quotations
1.Introduction
2.Booking Southeast Asia: And So It Begins, With A Nightmare
3.The New Language-Game Of Modern Colonial Capitalism
4.Raffles’ Java As Museum
5.Dressing The Cannibal: John Anderson’S Sumatra As Market
6.Brooke, Keppel, Mundy And Marryat’S Borneo As ‘The Den Of Pirates’
7.Crawfurd’S Burma As The Torpid ‘Land Of Tyranny'
8.Bricolage, Power And How A Region Was Discursively Constructed
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Bibliography
Index