![]() It has dramatic escapes and captures, gruesome executions and drunkenness, rivaling any pirate tale. The story is bloody, dramatic, and adventurous, and the book keeps things moving along at a fast clip. The book is a military history of how the Dutch colony on Taiwan (or “Formosa” to Europeans) was taken over by the Chinese faction led by warlord Zheng Chenggong, or Koxinga, to use the Europeanized version of the title he went by. Plus it has the Dutch, the true hipster choice in European age of sail empires. I’m trying to expand my historical horizons backward in time and away from Europe, and this book does both while also situating itself within a debate on historical theory. I stumbled across this book on a bad Goodreads list, but it turned out to be a good read (see what I did there?). ![]()
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