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Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1770-1870: John Crawfurd and the Politics of Equality: Empires in Perspective

Autor Gareth Knapman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 oct 2016
The idea of "race" played an increasing role in nineteenth-century British colonial thought. For most of the nineteenth century, John Crawfurd towered over British colonial policy in South-East Asia, being not only a colonial administrator, journalist and professional lobbyist, but also one of the key racial theorists in the British Empire. He approached colonialism as a radical liberal, proposing universal voting for all races in British colonies and believing all races should have equal legal rights. Yet at the same time, he also believed that races represented distinct species of people, who were unrelated. This book charts the development of Crawfurd’s ideas, from the brief but dramatic period of British rule in Java, to his political campaigns against James Brooke and British rule in Borneo. Central to Crawfurd’s political battles were the debates he had with his contemporaries, such as Stamford Raffles and William Marsden, over the importance of race and his broader challenge to universal ideas of history, which questioned the racial unity of humanity. The book taps into little explored manuscripts, newspapers and writings to uncover the complexity of a leading nineteenth-century political and racial thinker whose actions and ideas provide a new view of British liberal, colonial and racial thought.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138211766
ISBN-10: 1138211761
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 16
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Empires in Perspective

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction
1. The East India Company’s Scottish Critic of Empire in Asia
2. Land, History and the Source of Civilisation
3. Searching for the Aboriginal Pre-History of the Savage
4. Race and the Natural History of the Savage
5. Singapore and Competing Visions of Colonialism
6. Protecting and Civilising Savages in Sarawak
7. Resisting Colonialism in Sarawak
8. Civilisation, the Savage and Equality
Conclusion
Appendix: Identifying John Crawfurd’s Writings in The Examiner

Recenzii

"a serious contribution to the history and the historiography of empire and Southeast Asia", Michael D. Barr, History Australia

Descriere

This book explores colonial debates on race, liberalism, colonial expansion and equality in South-East Asia, focusing on the writings of John Crawfurd, one of the British Empire’s leading racial theorists and colonial administrators in Asia.