TY - BOOK AU - Farish A. Noor TI - The discursive construction of Southeast Asia in 19th century colonial-capitalist discourse T2 - Asian history SN - 9789089648846 PY - 2016/// CY - Amsterdam : PB - Amsterdam University Press, KW - Southeast Asia KW - Historiography N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -