Amboina, 1623 Environmental Sociology Published in cooperation with the

Published in cooperation with the English Folk Dance and Song Society

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Amboina, 1623 Environmental Sociology Published in cooperation with theIn 1623, a Japanese mercenary called Shichiz was arrested for asking suspicious questions about the defenses of a Dutch East India Company fort on Amboina, a remote set of islands in what is now eastern Indonesia. When he failed to provide an adequate explanation, he was tortured until he confessed that he had joined a plot orchestrated by a group of English merchants based nearby to seize control of the fortification and ultimately to rip the spice