TY  - GEN
T1  - The Company Fortress : Military Engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795
T2  - Colonial and global history through Dutch sources.
A1  - Odegard, Erik
LA  - English
PP  - Leiden
PB  - Leiden University Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1204135909
AB  - 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.
OP  - 292
CN  - UG432.S683 O44 2020eb
SN  - 9400603800
SN  - 9789400603806
SN  - 9087283466
SN  - 9789087283469
KW  - Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie : History.
KW  - Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie
KW  - Fortification : India : History.
KW  - Fortification : Sri Lanka : History.
KW  - Military engineering : India : History.
KW  - Military engineering : Sri Lanka : History.
KW  - Génie militaire : Inde : Histoire.
KW  - Génie militaire : Sri Lanka : Histoire.
KW  - Asian history.
KW  - Military history.
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - Fortification
KW  - Military engineering
KW  - India
KW  - Sri Lanka
KW  - History
ER  -