Table of Contents

Introduction PART I: THE DUTCH SEA ROBBER DEFINED Kapers and Commissievaarders: The Dutch Privateer A 'Malicious Business': Piracy in the Dutch Republic PART II: CULTURAL UNDERPINNINGS Collective Identity, Nationalism, and the Golden Age Netherlands Piracy, the Dutch and the Seventeenth-Century Seas PART III: CONCLUSIONS Prizes and 'Excesses': The Golden Age Pirate The Dutch Freebooter in the Golden Age

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VIRGINIA LUNSFORD-POE is an Assistant Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy, USA. She lives in Annapolis, Maryland.

About the Author

VIRGINIA LUNSFORD-POE is an Assistant Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy, USA. She lives in Annapolis, Maryland.