Galatea’s Reviews > A Traveller's History of Southeast Asia > Status Update

it's hilarious how the authors of the text describe Britain's colonialism as hands-off and just there to "bring civilization to the Malays" while they describe the colonialism of the French as "an intolerant French nationalism in which the ideals of liberté, égalité, fraternité were bastardized into a ' civilizing mission '. "

extreme hypocrisy and racism aside, this book is pretty good so far