Amboina, 1623 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amboina, 1623 write by Adam Clulow. This book was released on 2019-08-27. Amboina, 1623 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1623, a Japanese mercenary called Shichizō was arrested for asking suspicious questions about the defenses of a Dutch East India Company fort on Amboina, a remote set of islands in what is now eastern Indonesia. When he failed to provide an adequate explanation, he was tortured until he confessed that he had joined a plot orchestrated by a group of English merchants based nearby to seize control of the fortification and ultimately to rip the spice-rich islands from the Company’s grasp. Two weeks later, Dutch authorities executed twenty-one alleged conspirators, sparking immediate outrage and a controversy that would endure for centuries to come. In this landmark study, Adam Clulow presents a new perspective on the Amboina case that aims to move beyond the standard debate over the guilt or innocence of the supposed plotters. Instead, Amboina, 1623 argues that the case was driven forward by a potent combination of genuine crisis and overpowering fear that propelled the rapid escalation from suspicion to torture, that gave shape and form to an imagined plot, and that pushed events forward to their final bloody conclusion. Based on an exhaustive analysis of original trial documents, letters, and depositions, this book offers a masterful reinterpretation of a trial that has divided opinion for centuries while presenting new insight into global history and the nature of European expansion across the early modern world.
Account of the Massacre of Amboina
Account of the Massacre of Amboina - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Account of the Massacre of Amboina write by . This book was released on 1811. Account of the Massacre of Amboina available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Lost Samurai
The Lost Samurai - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lost Samurai write by Stephen Turnbull. This book was released on 2021-03-23. The Lost Samurai available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “An inherently fascinating, impressively well written, exceptionally informative, and meticulously detailed history” of Japanese overseas mercenaries (Midwest Book Review). The Lost Samurai reveals the greatest untold story of Japan’s legendary warrior class, which is that for almost a hundred years Japanese samurai were employed as mercenaries in the service of the kings of Siam, Cambodia, Burma, Spain and Portugal, as well as by the directors of the Dutch East India Company. The Japanese samurai were used in dramatic assault parties, as royal bodyguards, as staunch garrisons and as willing executioners. As a result, a stereotypical image of the fierce Japanese warrior developed that had a profound influence on the way they were regarded by their employers. While the Southeast Asian kings tended to employ samurai on a long-term basis as palace guards, their European employers usually hired them on a temporary basis for specific campaigns. Also, whereas the Southeast Asian monarchs tended to trust their well-established units of Japanese mercenaries, the Europeans, while admiring them, also feared them. In every European example a progressive shift in attitude may be discerned from initial enthusiasm to great suspicion that the Japanese might one day turn against them, as illustrated by the long-standing Spanish fear of an invasion of the Philippines by Japan accompanied by a local uprising. During the 1630s, when Japan chose isolation rather than engagement with Southeast Asia, it left these fierce mercenaries stranded in distant countries never to return: lost samurai indeed!
Inventing the English Massacre
Inventing the English Massacre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing the English Massacre write by Alison Games. This book was released on 2020. Inventing the English Massacre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Acknowledgments; A Note on Dates and Spelling; Cast of Characters; Introduction; Chapter 1 From Competition to Conspiracy; Chapter 2 The Amboyna Business; Chapter 3 Inventing the Amboyna Massacre; Chapter 4 The Reckoning; Chapter 5 Domesticating Amboyna; Chapter 6 Legacies: Reinvention and the Linchpin of Empire; Epilogue The First English Massacre; Appendix 1 Deposition Abbreviations; Appendix 2 True Relations; Appendix 3 A Note on Sources and Methodology; Notes; Index.
The Spanish Experience in Taiwan 1626-1642
The Spanish Experience in Taiwan 1626-1642 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spanish Experience in Taiwan 1626-1642 write by José Eugenio Borao Mateo. This book was released on 2009-10-01. The Spanish Experience in Taiwan 1626-1642 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses in the Spanish presence in Taiwan during the years 1626-1642. It examines the motives which drove the Spaniards to come to Taiwan. There were two main reasons for the Spaniards to come to Taiwan from Manila; firstly, so that the civil authorities might counterbalance the Dutch expansion, which since 1625 had been threatening the traditional trade between Fujian and Manila; and secondly, to enable missionaries to find a staging post to enter Japan in moments of strong persecution, and to create an alternative entry point into China.
