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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JSTOR
Stock Number
22573/ctv514m02
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International Standard Book Number
9462985626
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Diplomatic relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Southeast Asia, Foreign relations, United States, Congresses.
United States, Foreign relations, Southeast Asia, Congresses.