Let op: om deze website goed te kunnen gebruiken is het noodzakelijk om Cookies aan te zetten. Meer informatie...

Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge

in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka

Mikko Toivanen

Prijs: € 122,-
Voorraad#stock_type# onbekend
(Geen beoordelingen)
Delen:
Productspecificaties
EAN : 9789087284664
Auteur(s) : Mikko Toivanen
Taal : English
Onderwerp : Cultuur- en mentaliteitsgeschiedenis
Thema : Aziatische geschiedenis
Reeks : Critical, Connected Histories (6)
Uitgever : Leiden University Press
Verschenen : Augustus 2025
Druk : 1
Uitvoering : Hardcover
Conditie : Nieuw
Pagina's : 270
Afmetingen : 321 x 164 x 18 mm
Gewicht : 502 gram
Beschrijving

This book provides a fresh reinterpretation of the global spread of modern leisure travel in the middle of the nineteenth century through a critical comparative reading of twenty-two works of popular travel writing from maritime Southeast Asia and Ceylon. The examination of these books reveals a coherent genre that was seemingly frivolous yet in fact intensely political, with shared rules and tropes that served to legitimise colonial rule and codify aspects of colonial culture in the popular metropolitan imagination. On the ground in Asia, the emergent practices and preferences of this new proto-tourism reinforced and played off contemporary processes of colonisation. The analysis employs a novel transimperial framework, analysing Dutch and British travellers and their journeys in the Dutch and British colonies of the region, revealing the importance of colonial proto-tourism in creating an encompassing culture of empire that traversed national and colonial boundaries.

Velden met een * zijn verplicht