{"product_id":"liberalism-and-the-british-empire-in-southeast-asia-9781138082052","title":"Liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 Farquhar, John Leyden, Thomas Stamford Raffles, and John Crawfurd - to name a few - were fervent believers in a liberal free trade order in Southeast Asia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany recent studies of British imperialism, and European imperialism more generally, have addressed how the anti-imperialist tradition of Eighteenth century liberalism was increasingly intertwined with the discourses of empire, freedom, race and economics in the nineteenth century. This collection extends those studies to look at the impact of liberalism on. British colonialism in Southeast Asia and early nineteenth century Southeast Asia we see some of the first attempts at developing multicultural democracies within the colonies, experiments in free tr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 – Mapping Liberalism and Empire in Southeast Asia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGareth Knapman and Mary Quilty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2 – Before Liberalism: William Marsden’s Late Enlightenment Imperial Critique\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiana J. Carroll\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3 – Pragmatism at Play: Farquhar, Raffles and the Founding of Singapore\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNadia Wright\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4 – The Ideological Origins of the Founding of Singapore\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTze Shiung Ng\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5 – Potato and Rice-eaters: Labour, Wages and Racial Anxiety in Classical Political Economy and British Colonial Administrators in Southeast Asia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Quilty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6 – The Gaze of a Liberal Imperialist: Observing and Interpreting Oriental Despotism in John Crawfurd’s work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin Müller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7 – John Crawfurd’s 1829 Pamphlet on Free Trade and Colonisation and his Liberal Campaign for British Imperial Reforms in India and Southeast Asia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilbert Wong\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8 – Protector of aborigines or War Criminal: Two Opposing Liberal Views of James Brooke\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGareth Knapman and Martin Müller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9 – The Liberal Security Experiment in Southeast Asia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGareth Knapman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10 – The Liberalism Narrative in Southeast Asia, and Australia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthony Milner\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577803870551,"sku":"9781138082052","price":115.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/liberalism-and-the-british-empire-in-southeast-asia-9781138082052","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}