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. Data-Gathering in Colonial Southeast Asia 1800-1900: Framing the Other 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.
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.
A note on spelling, Introduction,
Chapter 1: Caught in the Eye of
Empire,
Chapter 2: Deadly Testimonies,
Chapter 3: Fairy Tales and Nightmares,
Chapter 4: The Needle of Empire,
Chapter 5: Panopticon in the Indies,
Appendix A: Proclamation of Lord Minto, Governor-General of British India, at
Molenvliet, Java, 11 September 1811, Appendix B: Proclamation of Stamford
Raffles, Lieutenant-General of Java, at Batavia, Java, 15 October 1813,
Appendix C: The Treaty of Peace Concluded at Yandabo, Appendix D: The Treaty
of Friendship and Commerce between Her Majesty and the Sultan of Borneo
(Brunei). Signed, in the English and Malay Languages, 27 May 1847, Appendix
E: The Racial Census employed in British Malaya from 1871 to 1931, Timeline
of events and developments in Southeast Asia 1800-1900, Bibliography, Index
Farish A. Noor is Professor of Political History at the Faculty of Social Science FOSS, Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia UIII. His work has focused on 19th century colonial Southeast Asia, looking at the modalities of racialised colonial-capitalism in the region. His recent works include Peta dan Kekuasaan (Mapping and Power, Lestari Hikmah, 2025), Data-Collecting in 19th Century Colonial Southeast Asia (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) and America's Encounters with Southeast Asia 1800-1900 (Amsterdam University Press, 2018).
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