1st Edition
Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1770-1870 John Crawfurd and the Politics of Equality
By Gareth Knapman
Copyright 2017
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
288 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
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
Biography
Gareth Knapman is a researcher at the Australian National University.
"a serious contribution to the history and the historiography of empire and Southeast Asia", Michael D. Barr, History Australia
