Awards

• Commended for Robert W. Hamilton Book Award, Office of the Vice President for Research, The University of Texas at Austin 2020
• Runner-up for Robert W. Hamilton Book Award, Office of the Vice President for Research, The University of Texas at Austin 2020
• Short-listed for New South Wales Premier's History Award, General History Category 2020

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Although one hesitates to use the word `definitive' in connection with the Amboina Massacre, which has caused fierce controversy until the present day, Clulow's analysis of the voluminous documentation generated by the Dutch and English East India Companies is incisive, balanced and utterly convincing. -- Martine Julia van Ittersum, author of <i>Profit and Principle: Hugo Grotius, Natural Rights Theories and the Rise of Dutch Power in the East Indies, 1595-1615</i>

Although one hesitates to use the word 'definitive' in connection with the Amboina massacre, which has caused fierce controversy until the present day, Clulow's analysis of the voluminous documentation generated by the Dutch and English East India Companies is incisive, balanced, and utterly convincing. -- Martine Julia van Ittersum, author of <i>Profit and Principle: Hugo Grotius, Natural Rights Theories and the Rise of Dutch Power in the East Indies, 1595-1615</i> A true model of globally minded historical scholarship, Clulow's brilliant new study combines insights derived from his cutting-edge work in the digital humanities with the best traditions of archival research and interpretation. Carefully exploring the Asian context in which the dramatic events of the Amboina trial unfolded, he offers a stunning portrait of the violence, ambition, and anxiety at the heart of European empire. -- Daniel Botsman, Yale University In a gripping story about fear and loathing in Amboina, Adam Clulow probes a pivotal event in world history to offer fresh insights about the entanglements of European empires in Asia. Meticulously researched and engagingly told, Amboina, 1623 is that rarest of rare things: a scholarly tour de force that is also a page-turner. -- Lauren Benton, Vanderbilt University

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Adam Clulow is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of the prize-winning The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan (Columbia, 2014) and the creator of the Amboyna Conspiracy Trial website, which won the New South Wales Premier’s Digital History Prize.

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