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Bricks And Bastions, Connecting 17th- And 18th-Century Amsterdam And Asia (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Forts in Comparative, Global, and Contemporary Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological research has exposed the remains of multiple 17th- and 18th-century fortifications built by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) from the Cape of Good Hope to the Far East. This data allows us to look at the types of forts employed by the Dutch, at the origins of their architecture, and at the...