CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Boundaries: Real and Imagined" (Laura Cruz and Hubert P. van Tuyll) -- PART ONE 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) -- PART TWO 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) (Susan Legêne) -- Bibliography -- Brief Biographies of the Contributors -- Index.