LEADER 05120oam 22006254a 450 001 9910795645103321 005 20230808193955.0 010 $a90-8728-346-6 035 $a(CKB)5590000000005752 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6384355 035 $a(OCoLC)1204135909 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_78953 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000005752 100 $a20201107d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Company Fortress$eMilitary Engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795 /$fErik Odegard 210 1$aLeiden :$cLeiden University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ[2020] 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 292 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 0 $aColonial and Global History Through Dutch Sources 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a94-006-0380-0 327 $aAppendix 1. Some Remarks on Terminology and Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Printed Primary Sources -- Literature -- Index -- Maps and Images -- Tables -- Backcover 327 $aChapter 7. A Plague of Engineers: Ceylon 1780-1789 -- War: The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War in Asia, 1780-1784 -- The Beginning of the Post-War Debates -- Criticizing Reimer -- The Exact Science of Fortification: French Plans For Colombo, Galle, and Trincomalee -- Reimer's Rebuttal -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8. The Military Committee: The Generality Intervenes, 1787-1792 -- Colombo -- Cochin -- Galle -- Trincomalee and Oostenburg -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9. Fall of a Fortress -- The Fall of the System -- The British Verdict -- Conclusion -- The Military Evolution of the South Asian States 327 $aDesigning the New Naarden in India: Van Reede At Negapatnam -- The Malabar Coast, 1670-1717 -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Mughal Decline and the Company: from Chowghat to Bedara 1717-1759 -- New Fortifications in Bengal and Coromandel -- Bengal, 1757-1759: A New Fort and Disaster at Biderra -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6. After Bedara: Attempting to Improve Defenses, 1759-1780 -- Engineers in India and on Ceylon -- Debating the Model Fortress: Negapatnam, 1760-1762 -- Ceylon from the War with Kandy to the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War -- Malabar 1760-1780: The Breakdown of Neutrality -- Conclusion 327 $aConclusion -- Chapter 2. "A Company of Commerce, but also of State" The VOC in South Asia -- A Federal Company -- A Multitude of Monopolies : The Company and its Commercial Policies in Asia and Europe -- Soldiers, Sailors, Engineers: The Company's Armed Forces -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3. The Van Goens System: Building the Fortifications, 1650-1675 -- Controlling Territory and Commerce -- A Typology of the VOC's Forts in South Asia -- Rebuilding the Fortifications -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Criticism and Construction: Debating and Building the Forts, 1675-1700 -- Criticizing van Goens's Vision 327 $aFrontcover -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Fortification and Urban Design -- The Military Revolution and its Effects on European Expansion: Fact or Fiction? -- Method, Sources, and Structure -- Chapter 1. Artillery Fortification at Home and Abroad -- The Italian Invention -- Adaptation in the Netherlands: The "Old Dutch System" -- French Developments in Defense and Siege Warfare -- Menno van Coehoorn and the New Dutch System -- The Trace Moderne of Cormontaigne-Ramecourt -- Beyond the Bastion -- Other Influences: Indo-Portuguese and Indian Military Engineering 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aMilitary engineering$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01021140 606 $aFortification$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00933024 606 $aMilitary engineering$zSri Lanka$xHistory 606 $aMilitary engineering$zIndia$xHistory 606 $aFortification$zSri Lanka$xHistory 606 $aFortification$zIndia$xHistory 607 $aSri Lanka$2fast 607 $aIndia$2fast 608 $aHistory. 615 7$aMilitary engineering. 615 7$aFortification. 615 0$aMilitary engineering$xHistory. 615 0$aMilitary engineering$xHistory. 615 0$aFortification$xHistory. 615 0$aFortification$xHistory. 676 $a382.094920509032 700 $aOdegard$b Erik$01479976 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795645103321 996 $aThe Company Fortress$93696395 997 $aUNINA