Patronage and Profit The East India Company Career of Sir Robert Cowan in Bombay and the Western Indian Ocean, c 1719 – 35 | 2 MB
Title: Patronage and Profit. The East India Company Career of Sir Robert Cowan in Bombay and the Western Indian Ocean, c. 1719-35
Author: Edward Owen Teggin
Category: Biography & Memoir, Political, Business & Finance, Management & Leadership, Leadership, Historical
Language: English | 216 Pages | ISBN: 1230010024287
Description:
Sits in the same time with Tokugawa Ieyasu. This book is the sea version of Shougun!
In 1661, a Chinese warlord did what every European power believed impossible: he took Taiwan from the Dutch.
For nine months, the guns of Fort Zeelandia held the most modern fortress in the East Indies. The Dutch East India Company had a proverb for men like the one massing on the sandbar outside: three volleys, and the Chinese will run. They were forty years out of date. The man at the gate was Koxinga – son of a smuggler-admiral, heir to a fleet that ruled the China seas – and when the fort finally fell, he founded the first Chinese kingdom ever built on Taiwanese soil.
But Koxinga’s war is only the heart of a larger story.
Sons of the Sea Kings spans three generations of the most formidable maritime dynasty the region has ever known. It begins with Iquan, the boy who knelt before a Japanese shogun, traded the stolen charts of the Ming Empire for a dagger and a promise, and rose to burn a Dutch fleet to the waterline. It ends with his grandson Zheng Jing, who inherits a kingdom caught between a hostile China and a watchful Japan – and must climb alone to the snows of the Jade Mountain to decide which way it will turn.
Grounded in the Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese records of the age – a captive surveyor’s diary, the chronicles of Koxinga’s own officers, the archives of the Tokugawa court – this is historical fiction that reads like a thriller and remembers like an epic.
Empires rise and fall on who controls the bays. This family knew it before anyone.
Sits in the same time with Tokugawa Ieyasu. This book is the sea version of Shougun!
In 1661, a Chinese warlord did what every European power believed impossible: he took Taiwan from the Dutch.
For nine months, the guns of Fort Zeelandia held the most modern fortress in the East Indies. The Dutch East India Company had a proverb for men like the one massing on the sandbar outside: three volleys, and the Chinese will run. They were forty years out of date. The man at the gate was Koxinga – son of a smuggler-admiral, heir to a fleet that ruled the China seas – and when the fort finally fell, he founded the first Chinese kingdom ever built on Taiwanese soil.
But Koxinga’s war is only the heart of a larger story.
Sons of the Sea Kings spans three generations of the most formidable maritime dynasty the region has ever known. It begins with Iquan, the boy who knelt before a Japanese shogun, traded the stolen charts of the Ming Empire for a dagger and a promise, and rose to burn a Dutch fleet to the waterline. It ends with his grandson Zheng Jing, who inherits a kingdom caught between a hostile China and a watchful Japan – and must climb alone to the snows of the Jade Mountain to decide which way it will turn.
Grounded in the Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese records of the age – a captive surveyor’s diary, the chronicles of Koxinga’s own officers, the archives of the Tokugawa court – this is historical fiction that reads like a thriller and remembers like an epic.
Empires rise and fall on who controls the bays. This family knew it before anyone.
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