Chapters
- Chapter 1First appeared in: Journal of Early Modern History 12-1 (2008): 1–24.
- Chapter 2Translated and revised version of: “Barent Jansz. en de familie De Bry. Twee visies op de eerste Hollandse expeditie ‘om de West’ rond 1600”, De zeventiende eeuw 21-1 (2005), 29–48.
- Chapter 3First appeared in: Imago Mundi 71-1 (2019): 34–50.
- Chapter 4First appeared in: Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesulxxx, fasc. 160 (2011): 445–70.
- Chapter 5First appeared in: Sixteenth Century Journal 44-3 (2013): 739–60.
- Chapter 6First appeared in: Christina Ionescu and Lauren Beck, eds., Visualizing the Text: From Manuscript Culture to the Age of Caricature (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2017), 95–116.
- Chapter 7Translated and revised version of: “Recht door zee: Ontvoering, muiterij en slavenhandel in Arguin, 1633–1634”, in: Michiel van Groesen, Judith Pollmann and Hans Cools, eds., Het gelijk van de Gouden Eeuw: Recht, onrecht en reputatie in de vroegmoderne Nederlanden (Hilversum: Verloren, 2014), 57–71.
- Chapter 8Appears here for the first time.
- Chapter 9First appeared in: Susanne Friedrich, Arndt Brendecke, and Stephan Ehrenpreis, eds., Transformations of Knowledge in Dutch Expansion (Berlin & New York: De Gruyter, 2015), 93–120.
- Chapter 10Appears here for the first time.
- Chapter 11First appeared in: Michiel van Groesen, ed., The Legacy of Dutch Brazil (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 207–28.