Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- F -- G -- H -- K -- L -- O -- P -- R -- S -- U -- V -- Z -- List of Figures -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Part I The Dutch Sea Robber Defined -- 1 Kapers and Commissievaarders: The Dutch Privateer -- 2 A "Malicious Business": Piracy in the Dutch Republic -- Part II Cultural Underpinnings -- 3 Collective Identity, Nationalism, and the Golden Age Netherlands -- 4 Piracy, the Dutch, and the Seventeenth-Century Seas -- Part III Conclusions -- 5 Prizes and "Excesses": The Golden Age Pirate -- 6 The Dutch Freebooter in the Golden Age -- Appendices -- Appendix I Sample Privateer Instructions -- Appendix II Income of Amsterdam Privateers and Their Rederijen -- Appendix III Some Dutch Privateer Captures -- Appendix IV Privateering Activity Sponsored by the Admiralty of the Maas -- Appendix V "Slave Roll" of Dutch Sailors -- Appendix VI Origins of the Barbary Corsairs -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.