A dam C lulow . Amboina, 1623
Fear and Conspiracy on the Edge of Empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9491197 |
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| Authors | Hans Hägerdal (0000-0002-4758-191X, Linnaeus University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 125 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1848-1849 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ahr/rhaa149 |
| OpenAlex | W3117981933 |
| Language | EN |
On March 9, 1623, twenty-one men, ten of whom were English, were executed on the spice-producing island of Ambon, or Amboina, in what is today the Indonesian province of Maluku (Moluccas). After a rushed and brutal trial they were declared guilty of conspiracy against the establishment of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), purportedly aiming to overthrow the Dutch post and possibly murder the crew. This somber event was subsequently flagged in English historiography as the Amboina massacre, although it was more properly a mass execution, and has continued to reverberate in books and articles to this day. An English propaganda pamphlet about the massacre from 1624 was used as a main source by Giles Milton in his well-known work Nathaniel’s Nutmeg: How One Man’s Courage Changed the Course of History (1999). The incident has been seen as a prime example of the ruthless brutality that characterized the rise of...
Ancient history · Archaeology · Courage · Empire · Historiography · Political science · Asian Studies and History · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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