Data-Gathering in Colonial Southeast Asia 1800-1900 - Framing the Other

Informationen zum Autor Farish A. Noor is Professor of Southeast Asian History at the Faculty of Arts, University Malaya. Klappentext Empire-building did not only involve the use of excessive violence against native communities, but also required the gathering of data about the native Other. This is a book about books, which looks at the writings of Western colonial administrators, company-men and map-makers who wrote about Southeast Asia in the 19th century. In the course of their information-gathering they had also framed the people of Southeast Asia in a manner that gave rise to Orientalist racial stereotypes that would be used again and again. Data-Gathering in Colonial Southeast Asia 1800-1900: Framing the Other revisits the era of colonial data-collecting to demonstrate the workings of the imperial echo chamber, and how in the discourse of 19th century colonial-capitalism data was effectively weaponized to serve the interests of Empire.

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• Authors: Farish A Noor, Farish A. Noor, Prof Farish A. Noor, Prof. Farish A. Noor
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.11.2019
• EAN: 9789463724418
• ISBN: 978-94-63-72441-8
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Amsterdam University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education