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    Fighting Another’s War: Imperialist Projections on the Victorian Novel’s Continent by Tamara Wagner

    Published 2007-12-01
    “…Yet it also forms a vital undercurrent in Dickens’s Little Dorrit, a novel that fascinatingly brings in references to colonial guilt produced by the opium trade in China and the second opium war, which was waging when the novel was still being serialised, the Crimean War, and the Risorgimento. …”
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    The Collapse of Mercantilism: Anglo-Hispanic Trans-Pacific Ventures in Asia at the End of the Spanish Empire (1815–30) by Ander Permanyer-Ugartemendia

    Published 2023-01-01
    “…Ties between British and Hispanic merchants are key for the analysis of the opium trade and Western imperialism in East Asia, and the development of British commercial hegemony in Latin America in the nineteenth century.…”
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    Opium smoking suppression campaigns and the role of anti-opium movements in the Federated Malay States, 1906-1910 by Jayakumary Marimuthu, Mohd Firdaus Abdullah

    Published 2020
    “…By the end of the 17th century, the Chinese community consituted the majority of opium smokers due to the British and Chinese capitalists greed to gain profits through the rapidly growing opium trading. The emergence of anti-opium movements in FMS was triggered by a number of key elements such as the development of anti-opium movement in Britain and China, and the spirit of nationalism among local Malayan Chinese towards their Mainland China which was gradually weakening due to escalating number of opium problems. …”
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