This volume explores the intellectual history of the Dutch Empire from a long-term and global perspective, analysing how ideas and visions of empire took shape

In 1724-1726, the Dutch clergyman François Valentyn published a 5,000-page account of the Dutch East India Company’s empire. It was the first and, for a long

The global operations of the East India Companies were profoundly shaped by European perceptions of foreign lands. Providing a cultural perspective absent from

Answering the calls made to overcome methodological nationalism, this volume is the first examination of the links between corruption and imperial rule in the m

This edited collection explores the histories of trade, a peculiar literary genre that emerged in the context of the historiographical and cultural changes prom