Data-Gathering in Colonial Southeast Asia 1800-1900 Framing the Other
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 Southe...
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
[2019]
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1043 DE-1046 DE-858 DE-Aug4 DE-859 DE-860 DE-473 DE-355 DE-706 DE-739 URL des Erstveröffentlichers |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. This work 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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| Beschreibung: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019) |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (272 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789048544455 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9789048544455 |