1. Introduction
Booking Southeast Asia: The History of an Idea
1.a A Book about Books, and Where to Find Southeast Asia

2. Booking Southeast Asia: And So It Begins, with a Nightmare
2.a Thomas de Quincey and the Malay from an Antique Land
2.b From Boemus to Theodorus de Bry and Sir Walter Raleigh: The East Indies in the Kingdom of God
2.c According to the Logic of the Modern Company: The Ordering of the East Indies by Johan Nieuhof
2.d From Nightmare to Knowledge: Coming to Know Southeast Asia

3. The New Language-Game of Modern Colonial Capitalism
3.a Racialised Colonial-Capitalism as the New Language-Game of the Nineteenth Century
3.b Headhunters, Cannibals and Pirates: Othering Southeast Asia

4. Raffles’ Java as Museum
4.a Knowing Java and Preserving Java: Thomas Stamford Raffles’ Great Venture
4.b True after the fact: Raffles’ History of Java as a Justification for British Expansionism
4.c Raffles’ History as a Catalogue of Dutch Errors
4.d From Conqueror to Curator: Raffles’ Java as a Museum of the Javanese
4.e You’ve Been Mapped: Raffles’ Map of Java as the Victory of Modernity
4.f The Conquest of Java’s Land and History: Raffles’ History as a Work of Epistemic Arrest
4.g Southeast Asia as the Stage for Self-Reinvention: The Legacy of Raffles’ History of Java

5. Dressing the Cannibal: John Anderson’ Sumatra as Market
5.a Pleasing the Company: John Anderson’s Search for Sumatran Clients
5.b A-Data-Mining We Will Go: John Anderson Embarks on His Fact-Finding Mission to Sumatra
5.c Carefully Does It: Anderson’s Careful Research on Sumatra
5.d Sumatra Surveyed: The Perceptible Gaze of the Invisible John Anderson
5.e John Anderson and the Reconfiguration of Sumatra as a Market

6. Brooke, Keppel, Mundy and Marryat’s Borneo as “The Den of Pirates”
6.a Colonialism and the Necessity of the Pirate
6.b Enter the Privateer: James Brooke Goes A-Hunting for a Kingdom to Call His Own
6.c Enter the Pirate: The Native Pirate as the Constitutive Other to Western Colonialism
6.d The ‘Pirate Menace’ Realised: The Instrumentalisation of the Borneo Pirate in the Writings of Keppel, Mundy and Marryat
6.f Knowing Borneo, Knowing the Pirate: Confirmation Bias and Closing the Argument in the Writings of Keppel, Mundy and Marryat

7. Crawfurd’s Burma as the Torpid ‘Land of Tyranny’
7.a Meddling with Burma: John Crawfurd and the East India Company’s ‘War on Tyranny’
7.b Snodgrass Sets the Tone: Framing Burma as Both a Threat and a Prize
7.c Weighed Down by the Maudlin Tyrant: Crawfurd’s Static Burma
7.d Now on to the Real Intelligence: Crawfurd’s Data-Gathering Mission
7.e Locating Tyranny: Crawfurd’s Mapping of Burma
7.f From Land of Tyranny to Theatre of the Grotesque
7.g And Thus Was Burma Known: Tyrants, Freaks and the Epistemic Arrest of Burma

8. Bricolage, Power and How a Region Was Discursively Constructed
8.a Books in the Era of Gunboat Epistemology
8.b Against the Coloniser’s Pen: The Internal Critique of Colonial-Capitalism
8.c ‘And Others Become Obsolete and Forgotten’: The Demise of the Language-Game of Racialised Colonial-Capitalism
8.d Conclusion: The Power behind the Idea of Southeast Asia

Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E

Bibliography

Index