Amboina, 1623 : fear and conspiracy on the edge of empire /
"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 Engl...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2019]
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction : 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.