Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands

1. Introduction
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Part I. The Dutch Sea Robber Defined

2. Kapers and Commissievaarders: The Dutch Privateer
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3. A “Malicious Business”: Piracy in the Dutch Republic
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Part II. Cultural Underpinnings

4. Collective Identity, Nationalism, and the Golden Age Netherlands
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5. Piracy, The Dutch, and the Seventeenth-Century Seas
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Part III. Conclusions

6. Prizes and “Excesses”: The Golden Age Pirate
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7. The Dutch Freebooter in the Golden Age
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Keywords: History, European History, Modern History, Cultural History