Reading the global: troubling perspectives on Britain's empire in Asia/
Sanjay Krishnan
- New York: Columbia University Press, c2007.
- 242 p.; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: How to read the global -- Adam Smith and the claims of subsistence -- Opium confessions : narcotic, commodity, and the Malay Amuk -- Native agent : Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir's global perspective -- Animality and the global subject in Conrad's Lord Jim.