Racial difference and the colonial wars of 19th century Southeast Asia / edited by Farish A. Noor and Peter Carey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Farish A. Noor (Farish Ahmad Noor), 1967- editor.

Carey, Peter-Brian Ramsay, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonization.

Southeast Asia--Colonization--19th century.

Southeast Asia.

Race discrimination.

Physical Description:

288 pages : map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]

Summary:

The colonisation of Southeast Asia was a long and often violent process where numerous military campaigns were waged by the colonial powers across the region. The notion of racial difference was crucial in many of these wars, as native Southeast Asian societies were often framed in negative terms as 'savage' and 'backward' communities that needed to be subdued and 'civilised'. This collection of critical essays focuses on the colonial construction of race and looks at how the colonial wars in 19th century Southeast Asia were rationalised via recourse to theories of racial difference, making race a factor in the wars of Empire. Looking at the colonial wars in Java, Borneo, Indochina, Philippines and other parts of Southeast Asia, the essays examine the manner in which the idea of racial difference was weaponised by the colonising powers and how forms of local resistance often worked through such colonial structures of identity politics.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Towards the Great Divide: Race, Sexuality, Violence and Colonialism in the Dutch East Indies, from Daendels (1808-1811) to the Java War (1825-1830) / Peter Carey

2. Hostis Humanis Generis: The Invention of the `Warlike Dayak Race' during the `War on Piracy' in Borneo, 1830-1848 / Farish A. Noor

3. Piratical Headhuntersyang semacam Melayu dan Cina: Creating the Abject Native Other during the Mat Salleh Rebellion (1894-1905) / Yvonne Tan

4. The Franco-Siamese War and the Russo-Japanese War Two Colonial Wars and the Political Appropriation of the Idea of Race in Absolutist Siam / David M. Malitz

5. `Sly Civility' and the Myth of the `Lazy Malay': The Discursive Economy of British Colonial Power during the Pahang Civil War, 1891-1895 / Netusha Naidu

6. `Smoked Yankees', `Wild' Catholics and the Newspaper `Lions' of Manila: The Multiplicity of Race in the Philippine-American War / Brian Shott

7. Warriors and Colonial Wars in Muslim Philippines Since 1800 / Mesrob Vartavarian.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Farish A. Noor (Farish Ahmad Noor), 1967- Racial Difference and the Colonial Wars of 19th Century Southeast Asia.

ISBN:

9789463723725

9463723722

OCLC:

1197547848