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Two societies, two conceptions of justice, collaborated and collided when French forces stormed Cartagena of the Indies in May 1697. For their commander, the baron de Pointis, a naval captain in the mould of Drake, this bloody if strategically pointless success fulfilled a long-postponed design ""that might be both honourable and advantageous"", with ships lent and soldiers (but not seamen) paid by the King, who in return would take the Crown''s usual one-fifth interest in such ""preis de vaisseaux"", the remaining costs falling on private subscribers, in this case no less than 666 of them, he

1 The Political Myth -- 2 Dutch Privileges, Real and Imaginary -- 3 The Black Legend during the Eighty Years War -- 4 Queen and State: the Emergence of an Elizabethan Myth -- 5 The Batavian Myth during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 6 'No Popery' in the Reign of Charles II -- 7 The Myth of 'Patriotism' in Eighteenth-Century English Politics -- 8 Oliver Cromwell's Popular Image in Nineteenth-Century England -- 9 The Rise and Progress of Tory Democracy -- 10 Mythical Aspects of Dutch Anti-Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century.

1 London as an 'Engine of Economic Growth' -- 2 Scotland and England: Culture and Nationality, 1500–1800 -- 3 The Survival of Country Attitudes in the Eighteenth-Century House of Commons -- 4 Ireland and England -- 5 Greater and Greater London: Notes on Metropolis and Provinces in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- 6 Aspects of the Frisian Contribution to the Culture of the Low Countries in the Early Modern Period -- 7 Holland and Six Allies: the Republic of the Seven United Provinces -- 8 The Crisis of the Dutch State 1780–1813: Nationalism, Federalism, Unitarism -- 9 The Party Structure of Holland and the Outer Provinces in the Nineteenth Century -- 10 The Role of the Outer Provinces in the Process of Dutch Economic Growth in the Nineteenth Century.