1st Edition
Liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia
Chapter 1 – Mapping Liberalism and Empire in Southeast Asia
Gareth Knapman and Mary Quilty
Chapter 2 – Before Liberalism: William Marsden’s Late Enlightenment Imperial Critique
Diana J. Carroll
Chapter 3 – Pragmatism at Play: Farquhar, Raffles and the Founding of Singapore
Nadia Wright
Chapter 4 – The Ideological Origins of the Founding of Singapore
Tze Shiung Ng
Chapter 5 – Potato and Rice-eaters: Labour, Wages and Racial Anxiety in Classical Political Economy and British Colonial Administrators in Southeast Asia
Mary Quilty
Chapter 6 – The Gaze of a Liberal Imperialist: Observing and Interpreting Oriental Despotism in John Crawfurd’s work
Martin Müller
Chapter 7 – John Crawfurd’s 1829 Pamphlet on Free Trade and Colonisation and his Liberal Campaign for British Imperial Reforms in India and Southeast Asia
Wilbert Wong
Chapter 8 – Protector of aborigines or War Criminal: Two Opposing Liberal Views of James Brooke
Gareth Knapman and Martin Müller
Chapter 9 – The Liberal Security Experiment in Southeast Asia
Gareth Knapman
Chapter 10 – The Liberalism Narrative in Southeast Asia, and Australia
Anthony Milner
Biography
Dr Gareth Knapman Is a researcher with the Australian National University specialising in nineteenth century Southeast Asia and Australia. His recent book, Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1770-1870: John Crawfurd and the politics of equality was reviewed as ‘a serious contribution to the history and the historiography of empire and Southeast Asia, offering new data and new insights. Knapman studies nineteenth-century British colonialism as it looked from the perspective of the contemporary colonialists – at a time when British supremacy was still in doubt (early in the century) or only just being confirmed (in the middle of the century).
Anthony Milner is Visiting Professor at the University of Malaya, Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University. He is an Australian historian of Southeast Asia, concerned with the history of ideas. His writings on Malay history and society include Kerajaan: Malay Political Culture on the Eve of Colonial Rule (1982, 2016), The Invention of Politics: Expanding the Public Sphere in Colonial Malaya (1995, 2002), and The Malays (2008, 2011). Milner has also written on Australia-Asia relations.
