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xNUR: Nieuwe geschiedenis (1500-1870)
xVerschijningsjaar: 2020
xTaal: Engels
xVerschijningsvorm: Paperback
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The Company Fortress
Military Engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795
Paperback || Erik Odegard || Leiden University Press
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? Was European fortification design as important for Early-Modern expansion as has been argued? This book takes on these questions by studying the system of fortifications built and maintained by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in present-day India and Sri Lanka. It unc...