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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Obviously, this minor Victorian classic is a principal template for scores of later books by sandy-haired Brits going off to seek adventure in far-flung, exotic places. Think of Robert Byron on the road to Oxiana, Eric Newby taking a short walk in the Hindu Kush, Bruce Chatwin trekking through Patagonia. For all its charm, though, a 21st-century American will grow quickly aware that Eothen is suffused with many of the classic prejudices of the Westerner toward "Oriental" cultures and civilizations. Kinglake sometimes admires the people he encounters, but whether he does or not, he makes clear, if only implicitly, that the "soft Asiatic" belongs to an inferior race and his customs are barbarous, or laughable, or just too damn mysterious to be understood. — Michael Dirda
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Makis Kalidis
reviewed Eothen on January 21, 2016
Eothen
Eric Tagliacozzo applies Fernand Braudel's sense of geography as history to the maritime border between the Dutch and English colonial aspirations in Southeast Asia (one of those lines drawn in the capitals of Europe, like the Afghan-Pakistan border, or the states of the Middle East, which in part explains why they are perpetually boiling over). In rough terms, the Dutch ambitions created what became Indonesia, perhaps the most linguistically and culturally diverse part of the world, and the British created Malaysia across the straits (except where they split the island of Kalimantan, known in the West as Borneo). This is the world of Conrad's early works, a shoreline of rivers and inlets, a trader's paradise and a smuggler's. For all the spice that made its way east to Europe, Tagliacozzi documents the lively trade in guns, drugs, counterfeit money and humans. The early, more theoretical chapters are slow going, but it moves more quickly as Tagliacozzo focuses more on the ships--Chinese, Arab, Malay or even American--their polyglot crews and their cargo. The British and Dutch called their outposts empires but huddled in their trading towns, which became Jakarta and Singapore, while the illegal trade carried around them.
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