Early Modern History

The Amboyna “Massacre” in a Global Context

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Alison Games explores an ordeal that took place in 1623, when Dutch traders in the Spice Islands tried, tortured, and executed 20 English merchants and Japanese soldiers. The English later dubbed it the “Amboyna Massacre.” Games is professor of history at Georgetown University and the Robert C. Ritchie Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington in 2013–14.