Boundaries and their meanings in the history of the Netherlands / edited by Benjamin Kaplan, Marybeth Carlson, Laura Cruz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: "Boundaries : real and imagined" / Laura Cruz and Hubert P. van Tuyll -- pt. 1. The golden age -- Divided loyalties : states-Brabant as a border country / C.O. van der Meij -- Geography unbound : boundaries and the exotic world in the early Enlightenment / Benjamin Schmidt -- Deciphering the Dutch in Deshima / Mia M. Mochizuki -- The transnational dispersal of the Walloon military aristocracy in the era of the Dutch revolt : the example of the Tserclaes of Tilly / John Theibault -- The geographic extent of the Dutch book trade in the 17th century : an old question revisited / Laura Cruz -- Pragmatic agents of empire : Dutch intercultural mediators among the Mohawks in seventeenth-century New Netherland / Mark Meuwese -- pt. 2. The modern age -- Neutral borders, neutral waters, neutral skies : protecting the territorial neutrality of the Netherlands in the Great War, 1914-1918 / Maartje M. Abbenhuis -- Last chance : Belgium at Versailles / Hubert P. van Tuyll -- The Dutch border areas, 1933-1945 : inducement for incidents or object of structural historiographical neglect? / Bob de Graaff -- "Our national community" : the dominance of organic thinking in the post-war Netherlands / Martin Bossenbroek -- Dwinegeri-multiculturalism and the colonial past (or: The cultural borders of being Dutch, part 1) / Susan Legene.