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Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1770-1870 - John Crawfurd and the Politics of Equality (Hardcover)
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Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1770-1870 - John Crawfurd and the Politics of Equality (Hardcover)
Series: Empires in Perspective
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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,
proposing universal voting for all races in British colonies and
believing all races should have equal legal rights. Yet at the same
time, he also believed that races represented distinct species of
people, who were unrelated. This book charts the development of
Crawfurd's ideas, from the brief but dramatic period of British
rule in Java, to his political campaigns against James Brooke and
British rule in Borneo. Central to Crawfurd's political battles
were the debates he had with his contemporaries, such as Stamford
Raffles and William Marsden, over the importance of race and his
broader challenge to universal ideas of history, which questioned
the racial unity of humanity. The book taps into little explored
manuscripts, newspapers and writings to uncover the complexity of a
leading nineteenth-century political and racial thinker whose
actions and ideas provide a new view of British liberal, colonial
and racial thought.
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