Stephen L Keck
Biographic Data
| ID | 5120293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen L Keck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen L |
| FAMILY NAME | Keck |
| SIGNATURE | KECK S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University of Sharjah |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Kenton Clymer. A Delicate Relationship
Despite the fact that Myanmar occupies an important geographical space, it is understudied, little understood, and challenging to write about. It has been relevant to U.S. foreign policy, but the relationship between the two countries has hardly been explored. Kenton Clymer’s A Delicate Relationship: The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945 aptly addresses this void. Clymer shows that building a successful and sustainable bilateral relation…
Involuntary Sightseeing
British Burma has never been adequately or even systematically studied as both students of modern Burmese history and British empire historians have given it relatively short shrift. Nonetheless, imperial rule lasted for nearly five generations and helped to produce the nation which now identifies itself as Myanmar. By the end of the nineteenth century, Burma was crucial to the wider South Asian economy, supplying oil, minerals, teak, and, above …
Going out and doing something’
Through a reading of writings of three British travelers to Egypt in the late nineteenth century – Lucy Duff Gordon, Amelia Edwards, and Talbot Kelly – this article offers insights into the ongoing transformations within the practices of travel and tourism. These writers left behind a record of the difficulties imposed on travelers by the expansion of tourism. The ‘anti-tourism’ evident in Duff-Gordon and Edwards contrasts with Kelly who regarded…
Picturesque Burma
With the end of effective resistance to British rule after the Third Anglo-Burmese War, Burma experienced significant economic growth, which led to larger numbers of foreign travellers going there. This article traces the publications of three travel writers – Mrs Ernst (Alice) Hart, R. Talbot Kelley and V. C. Scott O'Connor – by investigating the ways in which they relied on the concept of ‘picturesque’ to understand Burmese landscapes
Representations of River Travel in Burma
Indonesia. Breaking the spell
Indonesia. Breaking the spell: Colonialism and literary renaissance in Indonesia. By SYLVIA TIWON. Leiden: Department of Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania, University of Leiden, 1999. Notes, Bibliography, Index. - Volume 34 Issue 1
Involuntary Sightseeing
British Burma has never been adequately or even systematically studied as both students of modern Burmese history and British empire historians have given it relatively short shrift. Nonetheless, imperial rule lasted for nearly five generations and helped to produce the nation which now identifies itself as Myanmar. By the end of the nineteenth century, Burma was crucial to the wider South Asian economy, supplying oil, minerals, teak, and, above …
Picturesque Burma
With the end of effective resistance to British rule after the Third Anglo-Burmese War, Burma experienced significant economic growth, which led to larger numbers of foreign travellers going there. This article traces the publications of three travel writers – Mrs Ernst (Alice) Hart, R. Talbot Kelley and V. C. Scott O'Connor – by investigating the ways in which they relied on the concept of ‘picturesque’ to understand Burmese landscapes
Representations of River Travel in Burma
Indonesia. Breaking the spell
Indonesia. Breaking the spell: Colonialism and literary renaissance in Indonesia. By SYLVIA TIWON. Leiden: Department of Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania, University of Leiden, 1999. Notes, Bibliography, Index. - Volume 34 Issue 1
Picturesque Burma
With the end of effective resistance to British rule after the Third Anglo-Burmese War, Burma experienced significant economic growth, which led to larger numbers of foreign travellers going there. This article traces the publications of three travel writers – Mrs Ernst (Alice) Hart, R. Talbot Kelley and V. C. Scott O'Connor – by investigating the ways in which they relied on the concept of ‘picturesque’ to understand Burmese landscapes
Going out and doing something’
Through a reading of writings of three British travelers to Egypt in the late nineteenth century – Lucy Duff Gordon, Amelia Edwards, and Talbot Kelly – this article offers insights into the ongoing transformations within the practices of travel and tourism. These writers left behind a record of the difficulties imposed on travelers by the expansion of tourism. The ‘anti-tourism’ evident in Duff-Gordon and Edwards contrasts with Kelly who regarded…
Involuntary Sightseeing
British Burma has never been adequately or even systematically studied as both students of modern Burmese history and British empire historians have given it relatively short shrift. Nonetheless, imperial rule lasted for nearly five generations and helped to produce the nation which now identifies itself as Myanmar. By the end of the nineteenth century, Burma was crucial to the wider South Asian economy, supplying oil, minerals, teak, and, above …
Kenton Clymer. A Delicate Relationship
Despite the fact that Myanmar occupies an important geographical space, it is understudied, little understood, and challenging to write about. It has been relevant to U.S. foreign policy, but the relationship between the two countries has hardly been explored. Kenton Clymer’s A Delicate Relationship: The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945 aptly addresses this void. Clymer shows that building a successful and sustainable bilateral relation…
History (6 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (4 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Travel writing (3 works)