Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps and Images
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Artillery Fortification at Home and Abroad
- Chapter 2 “A Company of Commerce, but also of State” The VOC in South Asia
- Chapter 3 The Van Goens System: Building the Fortifications, 1650-1675
- Chapter 4 Criticism and Construction: Debating and Building the Forts, 1675-1700
- Chapter 5 Mughal Decline and the Company: from Chowghat to Bedara 1717-1759
- Chapter 6 After Bedara: Attempting to Improve Defenses, 1759-1780
- Chapter 7 A Plague of Engineers: Ceylon 1780-1789
- Chapter 8 The Military Committee: The Generality Intervenes, 1787-1792
- Chapter 9 Fall of a Fortress
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Some Remarks on Terminology and Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Index
- Colonial and Global History through Dutch Sources
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps and Images
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Artillery Fortification at Home and Abroad
- Chapter 2 “A Company of Commerce, but also of State” The VOC in South Asia
- Chapter 3 The Van Goens System: Building the Fortifications, 1650-1675
- Chapter 4 Criticism and Construction: Debating and Building the Forts, 1675-1700
- Chapter 5 Mughal Decline and the Company: from Chowghat to Bedara 1717-1759
- Chapter 6 After Bedara: Attempting to Improve Defenses, 1759-1780
- Chapter 7 A Plague of Engineers: Ceylon 1780-1789
- Chapter 8 The Military Committee: The Generality Intervenes, 1787-1792
- Chapter 9 Fall of a Fortress
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Some Remarks on Terminology and Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Index
- Colonial and Global History through Dutch Sources
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Company FortressMilitary Engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795, pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2020