America's Encounters with Southeast Asia, 1800-1900 Farish A. Noor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Series:

Asian history.

Asian History.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diplomatic relations.

United States.

Southeast Asia.

United States--Foreign relations--Southeast Asia--Congresses.

Southeast Asia--Foreign relations--United States--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-69071-8

1-04-078635-9

90-485-3677-4

9781003690719

OCLC:

1050732812