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020 $a9780231175128$q(cloth ;$qalk. paper)
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050 00 $aDS646.69.A43$bC55 2019
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100 1 $aClulow, Adam,$eauthor.
245 10 $aAmboina, 1623 :$bfear and conspiracy on the edge of empire /$cAdam Clulow
263 $a1907
264 1 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$c2019
300 $axvii, 289 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 201-277) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : the Company and the colony -- With treaty or with violence -- "We cannot exist without slaves" -- Dangerous and difficult to govern -- The English serpent -- The trial -- The war of the witnesses -- The long aftermath in Europe and Asia -- Epilogue : the fearful empire.
520 $a"In 1623, a Japanese mercenary called Shichizō was arrested for asking suspicious questions about a Dutch East India Company castle on Amboina, a remote set of islands in what is now eastern Indonesia. He was tortured until he confessed that he had joined a plot orchestrated by a group of English merchants to seize control of the fortification and ultimately to rip the spice-rich islands from the Company's grasp. Two weeks later, Dutch authorities executed twenty-one alleged conspirators, sparking immediate outrage and a controversy that would endure for centuries to come. In this book, Adam Clulow presents a new perspective on the Amboina case that aims to move beyond the debate over guilt or innocence. He argues that the case was driven forward by a potent combination of genuine crisis, imagined threat, and overpowering fear that propelled the rapid escalation from suspicion to torture, that gave shape and form to the sprawling plot, and that pushed it forward to a bloody conclusion. Based on a detailed analysis of archival records, letters, and contemporary legal documents, this book is a masterful reinterpretation of a trial that has divided opinion for centuries"--$cProvided by publisher.
610 20 $aNederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie$xHistory$y17th century.
610 20 $aEast India Company$xHistory$y17th century.
610 27 $aEast India Company.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00537796
610 27 $aNederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00548217
651 0 $aAmbon Island (Indonesia)$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aTrials (Conspiracy)$zIndonesia$zAmbon Island.
651 0 $aNetherlands$xForeign relations$zGreat Britain.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$zNetherlands.
650 7 $aDiplomatic relations.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01907412
650 7 $aTrials (Conspiracy)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01156316
651 7 $aGreat Britain.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204623
651 7 $aIndonesia$zAmbon Island.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01239773
651 7 $aNetherlands.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204034
648 7 $a1600-1699$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
852 00 $bglx$hDS646.69.A43$iC55 2019