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America's Encounters with Southeast Asia, 1800-1900 : Before the Pivot / Farish A Noor.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Asian HistoryPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9789462985629
  • 9789048536771
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- A note on spelling -- Introduction -- 1. The curtain rises -- 2. Pepper and gunboats -- 3. Friends, but not equals -- 4. 'It was a scene of grandeur in destruction' -- 5. Flirting with danger -- 6. It is your shells I am after -- 7. Empire at last -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix A: The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Siam and the United States by governments of the Kingdom of Siam and the Republic of the United States of America, otherwise known as the Edmund Roberts Treaty (1833) -- Appendix B: The United States-Brunei Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Commerce and Navigation (1850) -- Appendix C: The Treaty of Kanagawa or the Convention of Kanagawa, between the United States of America and the Empire of Japan (1854) -- Appendix D: Timeline of America's involvement in Southeast Asia, 1800 to 1900 -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9789048536771

Frontmatter -- Contents -- A note on spelling -- Introduction -- 1. The curtain rises -- 2. Pepper and gunboats -- 3. Friends, but not equals -- 4. 'It was a scene of grandeur in destruction' -- 5. Flirting with danger -- 6. It is your shells I am after -- 7. Empire at last -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix A: The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Siam and the United States by governments of the Kingdom of Siam and the Republic of the United States of America, otherwise known as the Edmund Roberts Treaty (1833) -- Appendix B: The United States-Brunei Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Commerce and Navigation (1850) -- Appendix C: The Treaty of Kanagawa or the Convention of Kanagawa, between the United States of America and the Empire of Japan (1854) -- Appendix D: Timeline of America's involvement in Southeast Asia, 1800 to 1900 -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

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