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America's Encounters with Southeast Asia, 1800-1900: Before the Pivot

America's Encounters with Southeast Asia, 1800-1900: Before the Pivot

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Series: Asian History

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologySoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 1041175493
ISBN13: 9781041175490
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 1 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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