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The Company Fortress
- Military Engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Company Fortress af Erik Odegard, 9789087283469
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
308
ISBN-13:
9789087283469
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
9087283466
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
11 mar 2020
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,6
Serie:
Colonial and Global History through Dutch Sources
Oplagsdato:
11 mar 2020
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The Company Fortress

- Military Engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795
Engelsk
Paperback 2020
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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 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 hampered by their disagreement over fortification design: there proved not to be a single ‘European school’ of fortification design. The study questions the importance of fortification design for European expansion, shows the relationship between siege and naval warfare, and highlights changing perceptions by the VOC of the capabilities of new polities in India in the late eighteenth century.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
308
ISBN-13:
9789087283469
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
9087283466
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
11 mar 2020
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,6
Serie:
Colonial and Global History through Dutch Sources
Oplagsdato:
11 mar 2020
Forfatter(e):
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