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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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Língua Inglês ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 304 ● ISBN 9781501746352 ● Tamanho do arquivo 22.6 MB ● Editora Cornell University Press ● Cidade Ithaca ● País US ● Publicado 2019 ● Carregável 24 meses ● Moeda EUR ● ID 7005982 ● Proteção contra cópia Adobe DRM

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