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Libra Esoterica

Opium and Empire

by Carl A. Trocki

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English

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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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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Initiatory orders and secret societies.

  • Initiatory orders and secret societies

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “secret societies”. Retained metadata contains “Secret societies” in the description.

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    • “Secret societies”· in description

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2019-05-15Cornell University Press eBooksEnglish—Unknown

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