Robinson on Con Dao: mango writing and faltering diplomacy in the precursors of Crusoe in Vietnam.
In this article, a reading of early travel literature confronts indifference to the latitudes of colonialism in resort tourism. The historical role of the East India Company needs to be told in its uneven and questionable coordinates – individualist, opportunist, exoticist, imperious, calculated, co...
| Published in: | South East Asia Research Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 486 - 504 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec 2021
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