*C.R. Boxer, The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600-1800 (Londen 1965)*J.R. Bruijn, The Dutch Navy of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Columbia, South Carolina 1993)

*F.S. Gaastra, De Geschiedenis van de VOC (Zutphen 1991)

Short overview of the Dutch East India Company.

*H. den Heijer, De Geschiedenis van de WIC (Zutphen 1996)

Short overview of the, more unfortunate, Dutch West India Company

*Maritieme Geschiedenis der Nederlanden (Bussum 1976) 4 vols.

*Nieuwe Geschiedenis der Nederlanden (Haarlem 1977-1983) 15 vols.

For both: check out the relevant articles.