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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Leiden University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Colonial and global history through Dutch sources.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 292 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9400603800 9789400603806 |