Carl A. Trocki (January 4, 1940 – May 30, 2024) was an American historian specializing in the history of

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Mainland Au ...

and China. He was formerly Professor of Asian Studies at the

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and Director of the Centre for Community and Cross-Cultural Studies. He was a Fellow of the

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.Carl Trocki's profile
at the Ohio University database He held a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history from

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. His academic publications include studies of Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, the

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, and the history of the drug trade in China and South-East Asia.

Books

*''Prince of Pirates: The Temenggongs and the Development of Johor and Singapore, 1784–1885'', University of Singapore Press, Singapore, 1979, second edition: 2007. *''Opium and Empire: Chinese Society in Colonial Singapore, 1800–1910'', Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1990. *''Gangsters, Democracy and the State'' (Editor), Cornell Southeast Asia Program, Ithaca, New York, 1998. *''Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy: A History of the Asian Opium Trade, 1750-1950'', Routledge Ltd., London & New York, 1999, reprinted in 2005. *''Singapore: Wealth, Power and the Culture of Control'', Routledge, London & New York, 2006. *''Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Postwar Singapore'' (Editor, with Michael D. Barr), University of Hawaii Press, , 2009

References

1940 births 2024 deaths Australian historians Australian sinologists Cornell University alumni {{australia-academic-bio-stub