Adam Clulow

Senior Scholar on World History Commons

Adam Clulow is an Associate Professor of history at Monash University in Australia. He is the author of The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan (Columbia University Press, 2014), which received multiple book prizes including the Jerry Bentley Book Prize for World History (awarded by the American Historical Association). He is the author of articles in The American Historical Review, the Journal of World History, and other journals and is the editor, with Lauren Benton and Bain Attwood, of Protection and Empire: A Global History (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia (Routledge, 2010, 2013). In recent years, he has developed an interactive website, The Amboyna Conspiracy Trial (amboyna.org), in collaboration with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, that takes students and teachers into the heart of a controversial seventeenth century legal case that took place in Indonesia but involving a global list of characters (Japanese mercenaries, English officials and Dutch merchants) and the first discussion over the legality of waterboarding. In 2017, the site was awarded the New South Wales Premiers History Award (Multimedia History Prize).

Projects

Maritime Asia 

Amboyna Conspiracy Trial