The discursive construction of Southeast Asia in 19th century colonial-capitalist discourse - Farish A. Noor (Farish Ahmad Noor), 1967- (Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2016)
Booking Southeast Asia : and so it begins, with a nightmare -- The new language : game of modern colonial capitalism -- Raffles' Java as museum -- Dressing the cannibal : John Anderson's Sumatra as market -- Brooke, Keppel, Mundy and Marryat's Borneo as'The Den of Pirates' -- Crawford's Burma as the torpid'Land of Tyranny' -- Bricolage, power and how a region was discursively constructed.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Southeast Asia -- Historiography