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Paperback The Long Shadow of the 19th Century: Critical Essays on Colonial Orientalism in Southeast Asia Book

ISBN: 9672328613

ISBN13: 9789672328612

The Long Shadow of the 19th Century: Critical Essays on Colonial Orientalism in Southeast Asia

Stamford Raffles, James Brooke, John Crawfurd and Anna Leonowens were some of those who came from Europe or the United States to Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century - and then wrote about what they saw.

Their writings deserve to be read now for what they truly were: Not objective accounts of a Southeast Asia frozen in imperial time but rather as culturally myopic and perspectivist works that betray the subject-positions of the authors...

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