Carl A. Trocki is an American historian specializing in the history of

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-eastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of mainlan ...

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

Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a public research university located in the urban coastal city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. QUT is located on two campuses in the Brisbane area viz. Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove. The univ ...

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

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

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

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

Chinese diaspora Overseas Chinese () refers to people of Chinese birth or ethnicity who reside outside Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. As of 2011, there were over 40.3 million overseas Chinese. Terminology () or ''Hoan-kheh'' () in Hokkien, re ...

, 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

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