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Reading the Global: Troubling Perspectives on Britain's Empire in Asia Krishnan, Sanjay (Associate Professor, Boston Universty)
Reading the Global: Troubling Perspectives on Britain's Empire in Asia
Krishnan, Sanjay (Associate Professor, Boston Universty)
Demonstrates how ideas of the global took root in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century descriptions of Southeast Asia. The author turns to the works of Adam Smith, Thomas De Quincey, Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, and Joseph Conrad, four authors who discuss the Malay Archipelago during the rise and consolidation of the British Empire.
256 pages, 0
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 24, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231140706 |
| Publishers | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 166 × 235 × 21 mm · 498 g |