Inventing the English Massacre
Amboyna in History and Memory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9322293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison Games (0000-0001-6718-9133, Dorothy M. Brown Distinguished Professor of History, Georgetown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 324 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Inventing the English Massacre (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressNew York (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780197507735.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W3027699613 |
| Open Library | OL29484674M |
| ISBN | 9780197507735 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
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
Art · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Latin American history and culture · 1623 · Amboyna massacre · asia · Colonies · Dutch · East India Company · foreign relations · Nederlandsche oost-indische compagnie
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |