The Company Fortress : Military Engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795 /

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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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Autor principal: Odegard, Erik
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Leiden University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.
Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie > History.
Military engineering.
Fortification.
Military engineering > Sri Lanka > History.
Military engineering > India > History.
Fortification > Sri Lanka > History.
Fortification > India > History.
Sri Lanka.
India.
History.
Electronic books.
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  • Frontcover
  • Table of Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Fortification and Urban Design
  • The Military Revolution and its Effects on European Expansion: Fact or Fiction?
  • Method, Sources, and Structure
  • Chapter 1. Artillery Fortification at Home and Abroad
  • The Italian Invention
  • Adaptation in the Netherlands: The "Old Dutch System"
  • French Developments in Defense and Siege Warfare
  • Menno van Coehoorn and the New Dutch System
  • The Trace Moderne of Cormontaigne-Ramecourt
  • Beyond the Bastion
  • Other Influences: Indo-Portuguese and Indian Military Engineering
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 2. "A Company of Commerce, but also of State" The VOC in South Asia
  • A Federal Company
  • A Multitude of Monopolies : The Company and its Commercial Policies in Asia and Europe
  • Soldiers, Sailors, Engineers: The Company's Armed Forces
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3. The Van Goens System: Building the Fortifications, 1650-1675
  • Controlling Territory and Commerce
  • A Typology of the VOC's Forts in South Asia
  • Rebuilding the Fortifications
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 4. Criticism and Construction: Debating and Building the Forts, 1675-1700
  • Criticizing van Goens's Vision
  • Designing the New Naarden in India: Van Reede At Negapatnam
  • The Malabar Coast, 1670-1717
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 5. Mughal Decline and the Company: from Chowghat to Bedara 1717-1759
  • New Fortifications in Bengal and Coromandel
  • Bengal, 1757-1759: A New Fort and Disaster at Biderra
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 6. After Bedara: Attempting to Improve Defenses, 1759-1780
  • Engineers in India and on Ceylon
  • Debating the Model Fortress: Negapatnam, 1760-1762
  • Ceylon from the War with Kandy to the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
  • Malabar 1760-1780: The Breakdown of Neutrality
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 7. A Plague of Engineers: Ceylon 1780-1789
  • War: The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War in Asia, 1780-1784
  • The Beginning of the Post-War Debates
  • Criticizing Reimer
  • The Exact Science of Fortification: French Plans For Colombo, Galle, and Trincomalee
  • Reimer's Rebuttal
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 8. The Military Committee: The Generality Intervenes, 1787-1792
  • Colombo
  • Cochin
  • Galle
  • Trincomalee and Oostenburg
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 9. Fall of a Fortress
  • The Fall of the System
  • The British Verdict
  • Conclusion
  • The Military Evolution of the South Asian States
  • Appendix 1. Some Remarks on Terminology and Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Bibliography
  • Archival Sources
  • Printed Primary Sources
  • Literature
  • Index
  • Maps and Images
  • Tables
  • Backcover

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