The Lure of the Tropics and the Colonial Emporium: The Study of Book Illustration and Newspaper Advertisement in Colonial North Borneo
Many historians use “Gold, God, and Glory” to describe the motives generating the overseas exploration, expansion, and conquests of the Western power over the East. In this paper, we intent to revisit those shorthands, the 3 G’s above, in rather different ways: the first part of the title of this pa...
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| author | Mohd Pakri, Mohamad Rashidi Simon, Peter Hull Abdul Rahim, Anis |
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| description | Many historians use “Gold, God, and Glory” to describe the motives generating the overseas exploration, expansion, and conquests of the Western power over the East. In this paper, we intent to revisit those shorthands, the 3 G’s above, in rather different ways: the first part of the title of this paper, ‘The Lure of the Tropics and the Colonial Emporium” could be used to summarise similar colonising motives of the West. The ‘lure’ indicates the temptation the colonial officers faced in the tropics, and this indication serves as an interpellation of colonial ideology, which makes use of the tropics and its inhabitants (i.e. colonised people) as its consumers and seize control of the means of production. Hence, the second part of the title, ‘The Book Illustration and Newspaper Advertisement’ would serve as a few examples of how the natives are being treated as well as how the colonial advertisement messages help to promote the idea of selling western products in the tropics vis-à-vis colonial emporium respectively. |
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| spelling | usm-455972019-10-08T07:41:46Z http://eprints.usm.my/45597/ The Lure of the Tropics and the Colonial Emporium: The Study of Book Illustration and Newspaper Advertisement in Colonial North Borneo Mohd Pakri, Mohamad Rashidi Simon, Peter Hull Abdul Rahim, Anis H1-99 Social sciences (General) Many historians use “Gold, God, and Glory” to describe the motives generating the overseas exploration, expansion, and conquests of the Western power over the East. In this paper, we intent to revisit those shorthands, the 3 G’s above, in rather different ways: the first part of the title of this paper, ‘The Lure of the Tropics and the Colonial Emporium” could be used to summarise similar colonising motives of the West. The ‘lure’ indicates the temptation the colonial officers faced in the tropics, and this indication serves as an interpellation of colonial ideology, which makes use of the tropics and its inhabitants (i.e. colonised people) as its consumers and seize control of the means of production. Hence, the second part of the title, ‘The Book Illustration and Newspaper Advertisement’ would serve as a few examples of how the natives are being treated as well as how the colonial advertisement messages help to promote the idea of selling western products in the tropics vis-à-vis colonial emporium respectively. Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Kemanusiaan Moussa, Pourya Asl Kumaran, Rajadran Azam, Yazir 2019 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/45597/1/ART4.pdf Mohd Pakri, Mohamad Rashidi and Simon, Peter Hull and Abdul Rahim, Anis (2019) The Lure of the Tropics and the Colonial Emporium: The Study of Book Illustration and Newspaper Advertisement in Colonial North Borneo. In: The 5Th International Conference on Linguistics, Literature and Culture. Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Kemanusiaan, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia, pp. 19-23. ISBN 9789674614362 |
| spellingShingle | H1-99 Social sciences (General) Mohd Pakri, Mohamad Rashidi Simon, Peter Hull Abdul Rahim, Anis The Lure of the Tropics and the Colonial Emporium: The Study of Book Illustration and Newspaper Advertisement in Colonial North Borneo |
| title | The Lure of the Tropics and the Colonial Emporium: The Study of Book Illustration and Newspaper Advertisement in Colonial North Borneo |
| title_full | The Lure of the Tropics and the Colonial Emporium: The Study of Book Illustration and Newspaper Advertisement in Colonial North Borneo |
| title_fullStr | The Lure of the Tropics and the Colonial Emporium: The Study of Book Illustration and Newspaper Advertisement in Colonial North Borneo |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Lure of the Tropics and the Colonial Emporium: The Study of Book Illustration and Newspaper Advertisement in Colonial North Borneo |
| title_short | The Lure of the Tropics and the Colonial Emporium: The Study of Book Illustration and Newspaper Advertisement in Colonial North Borneo |
| title_sort | lure of the tropics and the colonial emporium: the study of book illustration and newspaper advertisement in colonial north borneo |
| topic | H1-99 Social sciences (General) |
| url | http://eprints.usm.my/45597/ http://eprints.usm.my/45597/1/ART4.pdf |