AuthorTrocki, Carl A
TitleOpium and empire : Chinese society in Colonial Singapore, 1800-1910 / Carl A. Trocki
Imprint Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c1990
Descript xiv, 260 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Kongsi and the history of the Singapore Chinese -- Conflict and the kongsis of Southeast Asia -- Opium and the Singapore economy -- Economic struggle and the Singapore kongsis -- Rise of the great opium syndicate -- Collapse of Singapore's great syndicate -- Demise of the farming system -- Opium and the political economy of colonial Singapore


SUBJECT

  1. Chinese -- Singapore -- History -- 19th century
  2. Foreign workers
  3. Chinese -- Singapore -- History -- 19th century
  4. Opium trade -- Singapore -- History -- 19th century
  5. Singapore -- Social conditions

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