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| Introduction The Panopticon in the Indies: Data-Gathering and the Power of Knowing |
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I Lost no longer: The House of Glass that is Postcolonial Southeast Asia |
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1 Caught in the Eye of Empire Stamford Raffles' 1814 Java Regulations |
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I An English government does not need the articles of a capitulation to impose those duties which are prompted by a sense of justice: Lord Minto's brand of benevolent imperialism in Java |
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II The Lieutenant-Governor is Watching You: Raffles' 7814 Regulations |
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III Knowing Java and Policing Java |
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IV Policing Bodies: Corpses, Prisoners and other `Asiatic Foreigners' |
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45 | (10) |
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V Policing and Profit: Raffles' Regulations of 1814 as the Foundation of Regulated and Racialized Colonial-Capitalism |
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VI Framing the Javanese as both Useless and Useful: Native Labour in Imperial Policing |
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2 Deadly Testimonies John Crawfurd's Embassy to the Court of Ava and the Framing of the Burman |
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I Stabbing at the Heart of their Dominions: John Crawfurd's Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava |
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II I shall have the honour soon to lay an abstract before the Government: Crawfurd's Embassy to Ava read as an Intelligence Report |
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III Who Can I Trust? John Crawfurd's Search for Reliable Data from Reliable Witnesses |
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III.A Our Man in Rangoon: The Merchant-turned-Informant John Laird |
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III.B Our Man from London: The Merchant-turned-informant Henry Gouger |
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III.C The Unquiet American: The Yankee Missionary Adoniram Judson |
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III.D Everything including the Kitchen Sink: The Testimonies of Jeronimo de Cruz, John Barretto and the mysterious Mr. from |
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IV Racial Difference and the Framing of the Burmese in the Writing of John Crawfurd |
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V Deadly Testimonies: Weaponised Knowledge in the Workings of Racialized Colonial-Capitalism |
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3 Fairy Tales and Nightmares Identifying the `Good' Asians and the `Bad' Asians in the Writings of Low and St. John |
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I Fairy Tale Beginnings: Hugh Low Spins the Tale of Sarawak's `Redemption' |
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II Knowing the Difference: Differentiating Between the `Good' and the `Bad' Asians in the works of Hugh Low and Spenser St. John |
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III Protecting the Natives from other Asiatics: St. John's negative portrayal of Malays and Chinese as the oppressors of the Borneans |
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III.A Spenser St. John's construction of the `Malay threat' |
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III.B Spenser St. John's construction of the `Chinese Peril' |
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137 | (9) |
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IV Bloodsuckers and Insurgents: Knowing the Asian Other and the Maintenance of Colonial Rule |
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146 | (4) |
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V And the Narrative Continues: The Fairy Tale Ending to Sarawak's Story |
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4 The Needle of Empire The Mapping of the Malay in the works of Daly and Clifford |
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I Elbow Room for Empire: Britain's Expansion into the Malay Kingdoms |
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II Stabbing at the Heart of the Malay: Seeking Justification for Britain's Expansion into the Malay States |
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III Enter the Imperial Needle: Dominick D. Daly, Geographic Intelligence, and Colonial Mapping |
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IV To Bring Darkness to Light: Hugh Clifford, Colonial Geography, and the Duty of `the Great British Race' |
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V The Geography of Empire: Mapping and Colonial Power |
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5 The Panopticon in the Indies Data-collecting and the Building of the Colonial State in Southeast Asia |
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I We want to know you better: Data-collecting in the service of Empire |
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189 | (8) |
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II Text and Context: Empire's Power Differentials and the Framing of the Colonized Other |
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III Imperial Hubris: When Empire's Archive Fell Apart |
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IV The Panopticon Today: Data-Gathering and Governance in Present-day Postcolonial Southeast Asia |
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Appendix A Proclamation of Lord Minto, Governor-General of British India, at Molenvliet, Java, 11 September 1811 |
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Appendix B Proclamation of Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-General of Java, At Batavia, Java, 15 October 1813 |
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228 | (3) |
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Appendix C The Treaty of Peace Concluded at Yandabo |
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231 | (3) |
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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 |
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234 | (4) |
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Appendix E The Racial Census employed in British Malaya from 1871 to 1931 |
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| Timeline of Events and Developments in Southeast Asia 1800-1900 |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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