America's encounters with Southeast Asia, 1800 to 1900 : before the pivot
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Noor Farish Ahmad (1967-....) ;
- Editeurs : Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press ;
- Date d'édition : Copyright 2018
- ISBN : 978-94-6298-562-9, 94-6298-562-6
- Sujets : Asie du Sud-Est -- Relations exterieures États-Unis -- 19e siècle, États-Unis
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (272 p.), : Couv. ill. en coul., 25 cm
- Pays de publication : Pays-Bas
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Asian History
Notes
La ressource est également disponible en version électronique ; Notes bibliogr. en bas de page. Bibliogr. p. [255]-267. Index
Résumé
'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.'