TY  - BOOK
AU  - Games,Alison
TI  - Inventing the English massacre: Amboyna in history and memory 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780197507766 (ebook) :
AV  - DS642 .G36 2020
U1  - 959.852 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - East India Company
KW  - Amboyna massacre, 1623
KW  - Dutch
KW  - Indonesia
KW  - Ambon Island (Indonesia)
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Asia
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Great Britain
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Massacres - the mass slaughter of people - might seem as old as time, but the word itself is not. It worked its way into the English language in the late 16th century, and came to signify a specific type of death, one characterised by cruelty, intimacy, and treachery. How that happened is the story of yet another place, Amboyna, an island in the Indonesian archipelago where English and Dutch merchants fought over the spice trade. There a conspiracy trial featuring English, Japanese, and Indo-Portuguese plotters took place in 1623 and led to the beheading of more than a dozen men in a public execution. Inventing the English Massacre shows how the English East India Company transformed that conspiracy into a massacre through printed works which ensured the story's tenacity over four centuries
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