European colonial expansion led to Dutch notions of civilised society, or the Dutch's community's flexible and relatively charitable attitudes toward 'others',

Frances Gouda explores issues related to both Dutch and Indonesian women and their interactions with European men, in an effort to understand the "gendering" pr

Innocence Abroad explores the encounter between the Netherlands and the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

This pioneering history of the Dutch Empire provides a new comprehensive overview of Dutch colonial expansion from a comparative and global perspective. It also

Presents an overview of early modern Dutch history in global context, focusing on themes that resonate with current concerns.