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  title info:
    title: Amboina, 1623
    sub title: fear and conspiracy on the edge of empire
  name:
    name part: Clulow, Adam
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 289 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Introduction : the Company and the colony -- With treaty or with violence -- "We cannot exist well without slaves" -- Dangerous and difficult to govern -- The English serpent -- The trial -- The war of the witnesses -- Compensation and calamity -- Epilogue : the fearful empire.
  note: Adam Clulow.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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    geographic code: e-ne---
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie
    topic: History
    temporal: 17th century
  subject:
    name:
      name part: East India Company
    topic: History
    temporal: 17th century
  subject:
    geographic: Ambon Island (Indonesia)
    topic: History
    temporal: 17th century
  subject:
    topic: Trials (Conspiracy)
    geographic: Indonesia
    geographic: Ambon Island
  subject:
    geographic: Netherlands
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Netherlands
  classification: DS646.69.A43 C55 2019
  classification: 959.8/52
  identifier: 9780231175128
  identifier: 0231175124
  identifier: 9780231550376
  identifier: 2018058385
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 181206
    record change date: 20200117102138.0
    record identifier: in00004133258