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"Nations in Southeast Asia have gone through a period of rapid change within the last century as they have grappled with independence, modernization, and changing political landscapes. Governments and citizens strive to balance progress with the need to articulate identities tha…
South-East Asia handbook
by Loose, Stefan, Loose, Renate
fromStefan Loose travel guides
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Type: Book
"This collection of essays collects the leading scholars on British colonial thought in Southeast Asia to consider the question: what was the relationship between liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia? The empire builders in Southeast Asia: Lord Minto, William Farq…
The East India Company's Scottish critic of empire in Asia -- Land, history and the source of civilisation -- Searching for the aboriginal pre-history of the savage -- Race and the natural history of the savage -- Singapore and competing visions of colonialism -- Protecting and …
"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,…
The book makes a significant contribution to empirical work on semantic and grammatical change in a linguistic area, as well as representing theoretical advances in cognitive semantics.
The book makes a significant contribution to empirical work on semantic and grammatical change in a linguistic area, as well as representing theoretical advances in cognitive semantics.
