Racial Difference and the Colonial Wars of 19th Century Southeast Asia

Dr. Farish A. Noor is Associate Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and the School of History, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University NTU Singapore. His recent works include Before the Pivot: America’s Encounters with Southeast Asia 1800-1900 (Amsterdam University Press, 2018), The Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th century Colonial-Capitalist Discourse (Amsterdam University Press, 2016) and The Colonial Panopticon: Data-Collecting in 19th century Colonial Southeast Asia (Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming). Dr. Peter Carey is Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Indonesia UI. His latest books are Women of Power in 18th and 19th Century Java (Jakarta: KPG, 2016), and Urip iku Urub (’Life is Fire’)- Essays Presented to Peter Carey (Jakarta: Penerbit Buku Kompas, 2018) for which he wrote an 80-page Indonesian biography. His other publications include The Power of Prophecy; Prince Dipanagara and the End of an Old Order in Java, 1785-1856 (Leiden: KITLV Press, 2007), The British in Java, 1811-1816: A Javanese Account. (London: Oxford University Press, 1992) and Babad Dipanagara: An Account of the Outbreak of the Java War (1825-30): The Surakarta Court Version of the Babad Dipanagara. (Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1981).