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Hardcover Inventing the English Massacre: Amboyna in History and Memory Book

ISBN: 0197507735

ISBN13: 9780197507735

Inventing the English Massacre: Amboyna in History and Memory

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...

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