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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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Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 304 ● ISBN 9781501746352 ● Dateigröße 22.6 MB ● Verlag Cornell University Press ● Ort Ithaca ● Land US ● Erscheinungsjahr 2019 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 7005982 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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