Adam Clulow
Biographic Data
| ID | 311971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Clulow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Clulow |
| SIGNATURE | CLULOW A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4169-1656 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How Not to Possess an Island: Pitcairn and the Legal Circuits of British Empire in the Pacific World
s Historians have been remarkably incurious about the legal dimensions of “informal empire.” This article shows that legal practices in fact created and sustained sovereign indeterminacy. Our focus is Pitcairn, a small, remote island in the Pacific settled in 1789 by a handful of Britons and Tahitians after the mutiny on the Bounty . British officials, legal professionals, island sojourners, and historians have advanced a jumble of claims, each a…
Commodities and Power: Tracking Europe's Relations With Asia in the Classroom
From their high point in the early 2000s, commodity histories seem to be in decline. If the publishing world has retreated, it is also the case that teaching with commodities has never been more rewarding. For the past few years, I have been experimenting with different variants of a class that aims to use recent scholarship on a half dozen commodities not to track their long trajectories across time but rather to help students work through one o…
Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives
Stephen Roach has written a fascinating and important study that should be required reading for policymakers, journalists, CEOs, students, and anyone interested in this critical relationship. Accidental Conflict:America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives is a dense book backed up by an abundance of evidence but one that is also strikingly well written, punctuated by intriguing claims, and underpinned by a powerful argument that courses thr…
L'art de ne pas posséder une île: Pitcairn et les circuits juridiques de l’Empire britannique dans le monde pacifique
Les historiens ont fait preuve d'une étonnante indifférence à l'égard des dimensions juridiques de l'' empire informel '. Cet article montre que les pratiques juridiques ont en réalité créé et soutenu une indétermination de souveraineté. Nous nous intéressons à Pitcairn, une petite île isolée du Pacifique, peuplée en 1789 par une poignée de Britanniques et de Tahitiens après la mutinerie du Bounty. Administrateurs britanniques, professionnels du …
The Cambridge History of Global Migrations: Migrations, 1400-1800
Volume I documents the lives and experiences of everyday people through the lens of human movement and mobility from 1400–1800. Focusing on the most important typologies of pre-industrial global migrations, this volume reveals how these movements transformed global paths of mobility, the impacts of which we still see in societies today. Case studies include those that arose from the demand of free, forced and unfree labour, long and short distanc…
Interpolity Law and Jurisdictional Politics
Challenging the common assumption that legal misunderstanding was pervasive, this article analyzes jurisdictional politics as an element of “interpolity law”—a broad framework for legal interactions across polities and regions in the early modern world. It draws on recent research on jurisdictional politics to show how such an approach allows historians to avoid some of the familiar pitfalls associated with studies of legal pluralism. This approa…
From Shōgun to Ghost of Tsushima: Using and Challenging Historical Video Games
In 1975, James Clavell's Shōgun rocketed up the bestseller lists. While many historians criticized the novel for distorting the past, others argued that we should recognize its value as a conduit for engagement with Japan. The contemporary equivalent to Shōgun is a 2020 video game called Ghost of Tsushima which has now sold over 10 million copies. This article considers how the creators of Ghost of Tsushima view their responsibility to history. I…
Beyond 2020: Collecting Time Capsules in a Year of Pandemic
2020 saw a perfect storm of events. It began with the COVID-19 pandemic that swept across the globe, followed by waves of racial unrest, economic distress, and political turbulence even as wildfires, hurricanes and tropical storms tore across our region. It was clear to all of us that we were living through sweeping historical change compressed into a short space of time. This article describes the creation of Beyond 2020: Living History, a publi…
Protection Shopping among Empires: Suspended Sovereignty in the Cocos-Keeling Islands
The political status of the Cocos-Keeling Islands, a group of twenty-seven small atoll islands in the Indian Ocean about 1,700 miles west of Australia, remained unresolved from the time of the islands' settlement in 1827 until their effective incorporation into Australia in 1984. For a century and a half, protection shopping helped to create and sustain the islands' condition of suspended sovereignty. During the nineteenth century, the ruling fam…
Engaging the Other: "Japan" and Its Alter Egos, 1550–1850 by Ronald P. Toby
Reviewed by: Engaging the Other: "Japan" and Its Alter Egos, 1550–1850 by Ronald P. Toby Adam Clulow (bio) Engaging the Other: "Japan" and Its Alter Egos, 1550–1850. By Ronald P. Toby. Brill, Leiden, 2019. xl, 393 pages. €138.00, cloth; €138.00, E-book. For the readers of this journal, Ronald P. Toby and his work require little introduction. In 1977, Toby provided a first preview of his groundbreaking reassessment of the closed country or sakoku …
The Dutch East India Company and Business Diplomacy
Animal Research, Safeguards, and Lessons from the Long History of Judicial Torture
For animal research, the precautionary principle was written into public policy through the so-called three R’s of replacement, reduction, and refinement. These guidelines, as developed by Russell and Burch six decades ago, aimed to establish safeguards against the abuse of animals in the pursuit of science. While these safeguards, which started from the basic premise that science itself would benefit from a reduction of animal suffering, seem co…
‘Splendour and Magnificence’: Diplomacy and Sumptuary Codes in Early Modern Batavia
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Amboina, 1623: Fear and Conspiracy on the Edge of Empire
In 1623, Dutch authorities executed twenty-one alleged conspirators over a plot to seize a castle on a remote set of islands in what is now eastern Indonesia. In this landmark study, Adam Clulow presents a new perspective on the Amboina case that aims to move beyond the debate over guilt or innocence
New Technologies and the Practice of Early Modern Global History: Studying Connection in a Connected World
The Dutch and English East India Companies: Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia
A ground-breaking collection of essays that explores the place of the Dutch and English East India Companies in Asia and the nature of their interactions with Asian rulers, officials, merchants, soldiers and brokers.\n\nThe Dutch and English East India Companies were formidable organizations that were gifted with expansive powers that allowed them to conduct diplomacy, raise armies and seize territorial possessions. But they did not move into an …
Dutch and English East India Companies: Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia
Commemorating Meiji: History, Politics and the Politics of History
2018 marks the 150th anniversary of Japan’s Meiji Restoration, a milestone that the government of Prime Minister Abe Shinzō has actively sought to highlight and celebrate. Against this charged poli
Protection and Empire: A Global History
Empires and protection: Making interpolity law in the early modern world
References to protection were ubiquitous across the early modern world, featuring in a range of transactions between polities in very different regions. And yet discourses about protection retained a quality of imprecision that makes it difficult to pin down precise legal statuses and responsibilities. It was often unclear who was protecting whom or the exact nature of the relationship. In this article, we interrogate standard distinctions about …
The Art of Claiming: Possession and Resistance in Early Modern Asia
When he arrived back from his first voyage, Columbus reported that he had taken possession of lands and people beyond count. This typically confident statement encapsulates the key act of European expansion: the claim to possession over distant territories. This article considers European claims to possession in early modern Asia and in particular a string of territorial acquisitions made by the Dutch East India Company in the first half of the s…
Finding the Balance: European Military Power in Early Modern Asia
This article assesses recent developments in the debate over European military superiority in early modern Asia. It does so by focusing on Tonio Andrade's groundbreaking 2011 study, Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West , which stakes out a valuable middle ground between two clashing positions by suggesting that while Europeans did possess a genuine technological advantage it was not nearly as expansive as is …
G.G. Rowley, An Imperial Concubine’s Tale: Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-century Japan
Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese and Free Trade in the East Indies
The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan
The idea of "globalization" has become a commonplace, but we lack good histories that can explain the transnational and global processes that have shaped the contemporary world. Columbia Studies in International and Global History will encourage serious scholarship on international and global history with an eye to explaining the origins of the contemporary era. Grounded in empirical research, the titles in the series will also transcend the usua…
Empires and protection: Making interpolity law in the early modern world
References to protection were ubiquitous across the early modern world, featuring in a range of transactions between polities in very different regions. And yet discourses about protection retained a quality of imprecision that makes it difficult to pin down precise legal statuses and responsibilities. It was often unclear who was protecting whom or the exact nature of the relationship. In this article, we interrogate standard distinctions about …
The Pirate and the Warlord
Starting in the second half of the sixteenth century, Japan, and especially Kyushu, experienced a surge in maritime exchange that was unprecedented in Japanese history. Alongside the boom in trade, there was a concurrent swell in maritime violence as pirates and privateers militarized East Asian waters. During this period, the port of Hirado on Kyushu emerged as one of the most important and consistently active pirate hubs, becoming a base for Ch…
European Maritime Violence and Territorial States in Early Modern Asia, 1600-1650
The European overseas enterprises that began to push into Asian waters in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were maritime organisations geared towards commerce and seaborne warfare. As such, they looked very different from the powerful territorial states like Mughal India that traditionally dominated early modern Asia, and they were able to create a new kind of empire consisting of a network of fortified ports and trading centres connected …
Interpolity Law and Jurisdictional Politics
Challenging the common assumption that legal misunderstanding was pervasive, this article analyzes jurisdictional politics as an element of “interpolity law”—a broad framework for legal interactions across polities and regions in the early modern world. It draws on recent research on jurisdictional politics to show how such an approach allows historians to avoid some of the familiar pitfalls associated with studies of legal pluralism. This approa…
Protection Shopping among Empires: Suspended Sovereignty in the Cocos-Keeling Islands
The political status of the Cocos-Keeling Islands, a group of twenty-seven small atoll islands in the Indian Ocean about 1,700 miles west of Australia, remained unresolved from the time of the islands' settlement in 1827 until their effective incorporation into Australia in 1984. For a century and a half, protection shopping helped to create and sustain the islands' condition of suspended sovereignty. During the nineteenth century, the ruling fam…
Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese and Free Trade in the East Indies
Unjust, Cruel and Barbarous Proceedings: Japanese Mercenaries and the Amboyna Incident of 1623
In 1623, the Dutch governor of Amboyna, an important clove-producing island in modern-day Indonesia, executed a group of English merchants and Japanese mercenaries accused of plotting to seize control of the VOC castle on the island. After news of these events reached Europe, the Amboyna Massacre, as it came to be called in England, rapidly became invested with great consequences as English and Dutch leaders fought over the issues of blame and co…
European Maritime Violence and Territorial States in Early Modern Asia, 1600-1650
The European overseas enterprises that began to push into Asian waters in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were maritime organisations geared towards commerce and seaborne warfare. As such, they looked very different from the powerful territorial states like Mughal India that traditionally dominated early modern Asia, and they were able to create a new kind of empire consisting of a network of fortified ports and trading centres connected …
The Pirate Returns: Historical Models, East Asia and the War against Somali Piracy
On April 8, 2009, pirates attacked a US-flagged cargo vessel, the Maersk Alabama, about five hundred kilometers off the Somali coast. The ship, which carried a crew of twenty US nationals, including their now famous captain Richard Phillips, was on its way to Mombassa in Kenya with a cargo of soya, maize and cooking oil destined for the UN World Food Program. In the early hours of the morning, a group of four teenage gunmen armed with AK-47 assau…
Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia: Studies in Taiwan–Japan Relations
1. Onward, Christian Samurai! The Japanese Expeditions to Taiwan in 1609 and 1616 Stephen Turnbull, University of Leeds 2. A Fake Embassy, the Lord of Taiwan and Tokugawa Japan Adam Clulow, Monash University 3. Japan's First War Reporter: Kishida Ginko and the Taiwan Expedition Matthew Fraleigh, Brandeis University 4. Peddling Postcards and Selling Empire: Image-Making in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule Paul Barclay, Lafayette College 5. Maki…
A Fake Embassy, the Lord of Taiwan and Tokugawa Japan
In 1624, the Dutch East India Company established a colony on Taiwan. When Dutch authorities moved to tax and restrict Japanese traders, who had been sailing to the island for a number of years, they encountered immediate resistance spearheaded by Suetsugu Heizō, a Nagasaki official and merchant heavily invested in the Taiwan route. As part of his struggle against the Dutch, Heizō attempted to drag the Japanese state into the conflict by engineer…
Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640–1868
The Pirate and the Warlord
Starting in the second half of the sixteenth century, Japan, and especially Kyushu, experienced a surge in maritime exchange that was unprecedented in Japanese history. Alongside the boom in trade, there was a concurrent swell in maritime violence as pirates and privateers militarized East Asian waters. During this period, the port of Hirado on Kyushu emerged as one of the most important and consistently active pirate hubs, becoming a base for Ch…
The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan
The idea of "globalization" has become a commonplace, but we lack good histories that can explain the transnational and global processes that have shaped the contemporary world. Columbia Studies in International and Global History will encourage serious scholarship on international and global history with an eye to explaining the origins of the contemporary era. Grounded in empirical research, the titles in the series will also transcend the usua…
G.G. Rowley, An Imperial Concubine’s Tale: Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-century Japan
Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese and Free Trade in the East Indies
Finding the Balance: European Military Power in Early Modern Asia
This article assesses recent developments in the debate over European military superiority in early modern Asia. It does so by focusing on Tonio Andrade's groundbreaking 2011 study, Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West , which stakes out a valuable middle ground between two clashing positions by suggesting that while Europeans did possess a genuine technological advantage it was not nearly as expansive as is …
The Art of Claiming: Possession and Resistance in Early Modern Asia
When he arrived back from his first voyage, Columbus reported that he had taken possession of lands and people beyond count. This typically confident statement encapsulates the key act of European expansion: the claim to possession over distant territories. This article considers European claims to possession in early modern Asia and in particular a string of territorial acquisitions made by the Dutch East India Company in the first half of the s…
Protection and Empire: A Global History
Empires and protection: Making interpolity law in the early modern world
References to protection were ubiquitous across the early modern world, featuring in a range of transactions between polities in very different regions. And yet discourses about protection retained a quality of imprecision that makes it difficult to pin down precise legal statuses and responsibilities. It was often unclear who was protecting whom or the exact nature of the relationship. In this article, we interrogate standard distinctions about …
The Dutch and English East India Companies: Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia
A ground-breaking collection of essays that explores the place of the Dutch and English East India Companies in Asia and the nature of their interactions with Asian rulers, officials, merchants, soldiers and brokers.\n\nThe Dutch and English East India Companies were formidable organizations that were gifted with expansive powers that allowed them to conduct diplomacy, raise armies and seize territorial possessions. But they did not move into an …
Dutch and English East India Companies: Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia
Commemorating Meiji: History, Politics and the Politics of History
2018 marks the 150th anniversary of Japan’s Meiji Restoration, a milestone that the government of Prime Minister Abe Shinzō has actively sought to highlight and celebrate. Against this charged poli
‘Splendour and Magnificence’: Diplomacy and Sumptuary Codes in Early Modern Batavia
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Amboina, 1623: Fear and Conspiracy on the Edge of Empire
In 1623, Dutch authorities executed twenty-one alleged conspirators over a plot to seize a castle on a remote set of islands in what is now eastern Indonesia. In this landmark study, Adam Clulow presents a new perspective on the Amboina case that aims to move beyond the debate over guilt or innocence
New Technologies and the Practice of Early Modern Global History: Studying Connection in a Connected World
The Dutch East India Company and Business Diplomacy
Animal Research, Safeguards, and Lessons from the Long History of Judicial Torture
For animal research, the precautionary principle was written into public policy through the so-called three R’s of replacement, reduction, and refinement. These guidelines, as developed by Russell and Burch six decades ago, aimed to establish safeguards against the abuse of animals in the pursuit of science. While these safeguards, which started from the basic premise that science itself would benefit from a reduction of animal suffering, seem co…
Engaging the Other: "Japan" and Its Alter Egos, 1550–1850 by Ronald P. Toby
Reviewed by: Engaging the Other: "Japan" and Its Alter Egos, 1550–1850 by Ronald P. Toby Adam Clulow (bio) Engaging the Other: "Japan" and Its Alter Egos, 1550–1850. By Ronald P. Toby. Brill, Leiden, 2019. xl, 393 pages. €138.00, cloth; €138.00, E-book. For the readers of this journal, Ronald P. Toby and his work require little introduction. In 1977, Toby provided a first preview of his groundbreaking reassessment of the closed country or sakoku …
Beyond 2020: Collecting Time Capsules in a Year of Pandemic
2020 saw a perfect storm of events. It began with the COVID-19 pandemic that swept across the globe, followed by waves of racial unrest, economic distress, and political turbulence even as wildfires, hurricanes and tropical storms tore across our region. It was clear to all of us that we were living through sweeping historical change compressed into a short space of time. This article describes the creation of Beyond 2020: Living History, a publi…
Protection Shopping among Empires: Suspended Sovereignty in the Cocos-Keeling Islands
The political status of the Cocos-Keeling Islands, a group of twenty-seven small atoll islands in the Indian Ocean about 1,700 miles west of Australia, remained unresolved from the time of the islands' settlement in 1827 until their effective incorporation into Australia in 1984. For a century and a half, protection shopping helped to create and sustain the islands' condition of suspended sovereignty. During the nineteenth century, the ruling fam…
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