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Carl A. Trocki
Opium and Empire [PDF ebook]
Chinese Society in Colonial Singapore, 1800-1910

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Breaking new ground in the historiography of the overseas Chinese and British colonialism, this book focuses on two areas largely ignored by students of the period—opium and the economic role of the group of institutions known as kongsi, or secret societies.

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Carl A. Trocki is the Jacobson Visiting Associate Professor of Southeast Asian History at Georgetown University.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 304 ● ISBN 9781501746352 ● File size 22.6 MB ● Publisher Cornell University Press ● City Ithaca ● Country US ● Published 2019 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7005982 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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