The discursive construction of Southeast Asia in 19th century colonial-capitalist discourse /Farish A. Noor.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Table of Contents; A Note on the Language, Spelling and Pagination of Quotations; 1. Introduction; Booking Southeast Asia: The History of an Idea; 1.a Book about Books, and Where to Find Southeast Asia; 2. Booking Southeast Asia: And So It Begins, with a Nightmare; 2.a Thomas de Quincey and the Malay from an Antique Land; 2.b From Boemus to Theodorus de Bry and Sir Walter Raleigh: The East Indies in the Kingdom of God; 2.c According to the Logic of the Modern Company: The Ordering of the East Indies by Johan Nieuhof; 2.d From Nightmare to Knowledge: Coming to Know Southeast Asia

3. The New Language-Game of Modern Colonial Capitalism3.a Racialised Colonial-Capitalism as the New Language-Game of the Nineteenth Century; 3.b Headhunters, Cannibals and Pirates: Othering Southeast Asia; 4. Raffles' Java as Museum; 4.a Knowing Java and Preserving Java: Thomas Stamford Raffles' Great Venture; 4.b True after the fact: Raffles' History of Java as a Justification for British Expansionism; 4.c Raffles' History as a Catalogue of Dutch Errors; 4.d From Conqueror to Curator: Raffles' Java as a Museum of the Javanese

4.e You've Been Mapped: Raffles' Map of Java as the Victory of Modernity4.f The Conquest of Java's Land and History: Raffles' History as a Work of Epistemic Arrest; 4.g Southeast Asia as the Stage for Self-Reinvention: The Legacy of Raffles' History of Java; 5. Dressing the Cannibal: John Anderson's Sumatra as Market; 5.a Pleasing the Company: John Anderson's Search for Sumatran Clients; 5.b A-Data-Mining We Will Go: John Anderson Embarks on His Fact-Finding Mission to Sumatra; 5.c Carefully Does It: Anderson's Careful Research on Sumatra

5.d Sumatra Surveyed: The Perceptible Gaze of the Invisible John Anderson5.e John Anderson and the Reconfiguration of Sumatra as a Market; 6. Brooke, Keppel, Mundy and Marryat's Borneo as 'The Den of Pirates'; 6.a Colonialism and the Necessity of the Pirate; 6.b Enter the Privateer: James Brooke Goes A-Hunting for a Kingdom to Call His Own; 6.c Enter the Pirate: The Native Pirate as the Constitutive Other to Western Colonialism; 6.d The 'Pirate Menace' Realised: The Instrumentalisation of the Borneo Pirate in the Writings of Captains Keppel, Mundy and Marryat

6.f Knowing Borneo, Knowing the Pirate: Confirmation Bias and Closing the Argument in the Writings of Keppel, Mundy and Marryat7. Crawfurd's Burma as the Torpid 'Land of Tyranny'; 7.a Meddling with Burma: John Crawfurd and the East India Company's 'War on Tyranny'; 7.b Snodgrass Sets the Tone: Framing Burma as Both a Threat and a Prize; 7.c Weighed Down by the Maudlin Tyrant: Crawfurd's Static Burma; 7.d Now on to the Real Intelligence: Crawfurd's Data-Gathering Mission; 7.e Locating Tyranny: Crawfurd's Mapping of Burma; 7.f From Land of Tyranny to Theatre of the Grotesque

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