Inventing the English Massacre: Amboyna in History and Memory

by Alison Games

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197507735
• ISBN13: 9780197507735
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"