The Dutch Displayed Or A Succinct Account Of The Barbarities Rapines And Injustices Committed By The Subjects Of Holland Upon Those Of England Since The Commencement Of The Dutch Republic To The Present Times With A Plate
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The Dutch Displayed
Author | : Anonymous |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2009-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781104488567 |
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Inventing the English Massacre
Author | : Alison Games |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0197507743 |
My Lai, Wounded Knee, Sandy Hook: the place names evoke grief and horror, each the site of a massacre. 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 sixteenth century, and ultimately came to signify a specific type of death, one characterized 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, both books and images, which ensured the story's tenacity over four centuries. By the eighteenth century, the story emerged as a familiar and shared cultural touchstone and a term that needed no further explanation. By the nineteenth century, the Amboyna Massacre became the linchpin of the British empire, an event that historians argued well into the twentieth century had changed the course of history and explained why the British had a stronghold in India. The broad familiarity with the incident and the Amboyna Massacre's position as an early and formative violent event turned the episode into the first English massacre. Drawing on archival documents in Dutch, French, and English, Alison Games masterfully recovers the history, ramifications, and afterlives of this event, which shaped the meaning of subsequent acts of violence and made intimacy, treachery, and cruelty indelibly connected with massacres.