Chapter 1 Introduction: Intellectual History in Imperial Practice

Chapter 2 Birthing Empire: The States General and the Chartering of the VOC and the WIC

Chapter 3 Empire of Riches: Visions of Dutch Commercial Imperialism, c. 1600–1750

Chapter 4 Hyper-Imperialism: The Dutch Vision of Empire and the Expansion of the European World

Chapter 5 Comparatively Exceptional: The Paradoxes of Twentieth-Century Dutch Imperialism and Decolonization

Chapter 7 Envisioning the Dutch Imperial Nation-State in the Age of Revolutions

Chapter 8 Rule of Lawyers: Liberalism and Colonial Judges in Nineteenth-Century Java

Chapter 9 The Glass House Revisited: Radio Broadcasting and the Blind Spots in the Late Colonial State in the Netherlands Indies, 1920s and 1930s

Chapter 10 Epilogue . Colonial Distances: Dutch Intellectual Images of Global Trade and Conquest in the Colonial and Postcolonial Age