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- ↑ Carl Trocki's profile Archived 8 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine at the Ohio University database
- ↑ "QUT Search - results for 'trocki'". searching.qut.edu.au. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
- ↑ Trocki, C. (2012). Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade 1750-1950. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781135118990 . Retrieved 11 January 2017.
- ↑ Barr, M.D.; Trocki, C.A. (2008). Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Post-war Singapore. SINGAPORE University Press. ISBN 9789971693787 . Retrieved 11 January 2017.
- ↑ Cooke, N.; Li, T. (2004). Water Frontier: Commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880. Singapore University Press. p. 202. ISBN 9780742530836 . Retrieved 11 January 2017.
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