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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Clulow, Adam (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
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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.