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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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Idioma Inglés ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 304 ● ISBN 9781501746352 ● Tamaño de archivo 22.6 MB ● Editorial Cornell University Press ● Ciudad Ithaca ● País US ● Publicado 2019 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 7005982 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM

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