America's encounters with Southeast Asia 1800 to 1900 : before the pivot /
A century before the Philippines came under American control, Americans were already travelling to Southeast Asia regularly. This book looks at the writings of American diplomats, adventurers, and scientists and chronicles how nineteenth-century Americans viewed and imagined Southeast Asia through t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | Asian history.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | A century before the Philippines came under American control, Americans were already travelling to Southeast Asia regularly. This book looks at the writings of American diplomats, adventurers, and scientists and chronicles how nineteenth-century Americans viewed and imagined Southeast Asia through their own cultural-political lenses. It argues that as Americans came to visit the region they also brought with them a train of cultural assumptions and biases that contributed to the development of American Orientalism in Southeast Asia. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (304 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789048536771 9048536774 |