دانلود کتاب Liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
1. Mapping liberalism and empire in Southeast Asia
What is liberalism?
British colonial administrators and empire in Southeast Asia
Liberalism in the writings of British colonial administrators in Southeast Asia
Indigenous ideologies of power in Southeast Asia
Indigenous and local responses to liberalism
Conclusion – the end of the liberal order
Notes
2. Before liberalism: William Marsden’s late Enlightenment imperial critique0
Marsden and the physiocrats
Marsden and Robertson
Land and cultivation
Stadial theory in the later eighteenth century
Marsden’s critique of Robertson
Defending Sumatran civilisation
Empires and monopolies
Marsden and the Menangkabau Empires
Conclusion
Notes
3. Pragmatism at play: Farquhar, Raffles and the founding of Singapore
Competition between merchant companies
The need for a new port
The Selection of Singapore
Farquhar in Singapore
The development of Singapore
Singapore and free trade
Conclusion
Notes
4. The ideological origins of the founding of Singapore
Committee on Foreign Trade
Commonwealth of the Malay Archipelago
Ends of empire
National policy
Politics of free trade
Conclusion
Notes
5. Rice and potato-eaters: Labour, wages and race in the political economy of British colonial administrators in Southeast Asia
Labour as a source of value
Labour in different soils, climates and countries
The value of labour and different staple foods
Customary needs
Labour of unequal value in distant places
Comparative costs between ‘nations’ in close proximity
Labour of unequal value in the same country
Asian subsistence levels and levels of civilisation
Chinese labour
Conclusion
Notes
6. The gaze of a liberal imperialist: Observing and interpreting oriental despotism in John Crawfurd’s work
On oriental despotism
Linking oriental despotism and liberal imperialism
Books, text, and context(s)
Shapes of despotism and shades of orientalism
Conjectural history and the material origins of oriental despotism
Conclusion
Notes
7. John Crawfurd’s 1829 pamphlet on free trade and colonisation and his liberal campaign for British imperial reforms in India and Southeast Asia
Crawfurd’s pamphlet and his campaigns against the East India Company
Free trade and colonisation as a way forward for India’s prosperity
European colonisation of India
Crawfurd on Britain’s obligation to Her Indian subjects
Crawfurd’s pamphlet and his position on British colonialism in Asia
The reception of Crawfurd’s pamphlet
India and Southeast Asia in Crawfurd’s liberal vision of British imperial policy
Notes
8. Protector of aborigines or war criminal: Two opposing liberal views of James Brooke
Imperial humanitarianism of 1830s
Reforming the degraded state and cultural identity of Southeast Asia
Brooke the war criminal
Adjudicating the two James Brookes: commission of inquiry
Conclusion
Notes
9. The liberal security experiment in Southeast Asia
Maxwell’s critique as a response to British Colonial aggrandisement
Liberal international relations
Crawfurd’s History of Indian Archipelago and limited engagement
The Free Traders
Siam and Kedah
James Brooke’s challenge to non-intervention
Conclusion
Notes
10. The liberalism narrative in Southeast Asia, and Australia
Notes
Bibliography
Index