Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Maps and Images x
4. Tables xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1 Artillery Fortification at Home and Abroad 19
8. Chapter 2 “A Company of Commerce, but also of State” The VOC in South Asia 55
9. Chapter 3 The Van Goens System Building the Fortifications, 1650-1675 83
10. Chapter 4 Criticism and Construction: Debating and Building the Forts, 1675-1700 107
11. Chapter 5 Mughal Decline and the Company: from Chowghat to Bedara 1717-1759 137
12. Chapter 6 After Bedara: Attempting to Improve Defenses, 1759-1780 159
13. Chapter 7 A Plague of Engineers: Ceylon 1780-1789 193
14. Chapter 8 The Military Committee The Generality Intervenes, 1787-1792 219
15. Chapter 9 Fall of a Fortress 243
16. Conclusion 253
17. Appendix 1 Some Remarks on Terminology and Illustrations 261
18. Acknowledgements 263
19. Bibliography 265
20. Index 285