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The Company Fortress : Military Engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795 /
The remains of Dutch East India Company forts are scattered throughout littoral Asia and Africa. But how important were the specific characteristics of European bastion-trace fortifications to Early Modern European expansion? The Company Fortress takes on this question by studying the system of fort...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Leiden University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The remains of Dutch East India Company forts are scattered throughout littoral Asia and Africa. But how important were the specific characteristics of European bastion-trace fortifications to Early Modern European expansion? The Company Fortress takes on this question by studying the system of fortifications built and maintained by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in present-day India and Sri Lanka. It uncovers the stories of the forts and their designers, arguing that many of these engineers were in fact amateurs and their creations contained serious flaws. Subsequent engineers were hamper. |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (308 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9789400603806 |