This book looks at the writings of American diplomats, adventurers, and scientists and chronicles how nineteenth-century Americans viewed and imagined Southeast

Throughout its history, the United States has been both imperialistic and anticolonial: imperialistic in its expansion across the continent and across oceans to

A century before the Philippines came under American control, Americans were already travelling to Southeast Asia regularly. This book looks at the writings of

Performing Southeast Asia: Performance, Politics and the Contemporary is an important reconsideration of the histories and practices of theatre and performance

Noor offers a close account of the construction of Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century by the forces of capitalism and imperialism.