Elisabeth Heijmans (University of Antwerp) is an economic and social historian of French and Dutch early modern colonialism and colonial trade. She is the author of the 2020 monograph The Agency of Empire : Connections and Strategies in French Overseas Expansion (1686-1746) and has published in English, French, and Dutch.Sophie Rose is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen with an interest in the colonial Dutch Caribbean, global history, and the history of morality. She is currently adapting her PhD dissertation, Regulating Relations: Controlling Sex and Marriage in the Early Modern Dutch Empire, into a book.

• Part 1: Religion and the negotiation of belongingChapter 1. Old and New Members: Religious and Civic Conversion in the Iberian WorldsTamar Herzog, Harvard UniversityChapter 2. In and beyond the Portuguese Empire: Coping with marriage ritual diversity in early modern Goa Ângela Barreto Xavier, University of LisbonChapter 3. Barrido: A thief, Christian and Pulaya. The implications of categorization on the eighteenth century Malabar coastAlexander Geelen, International Institute of Social HistoryPart 2: Slavery and legal statusChapter 4. The uses and management of Indigenous, African and mixed-raced identities in the legal sphere in Portuguese Amazonia (18th century)André Luís Ferreira, Federal University of Pará Chapter 5. Experiences of enslaved persons with criminal justice and social control on Curaçao, 1730-1740Stef Vink, Leiden UniversityChapter 6. Indigenous populations and labor in the Dutch colonial empire – the example of the Cape and the GuianasRafaël Thiebaut, Musée du quai Branly - Jacques ChiracPart 3: Subjecthood and imperial statesChapter 7. Making Peace Beyond the Line: Capitulations, Interpolity Law, and Political Pluralism in Suriname and New Netherland, 1664-1675Timo McGregor, London School of EconomicsChapter 8. Imperfect Strangers: Frenchmen, foreigners and illegality in 18th-century GuadeloupeTessa de Boer, Leiden UniversityPart 4: Diversity in theory and practice: a longue durée perspectiveChapter 9. Colonial Segregation, Apartheid State and Rainbow Nation: Negotiating Diversity in Twentieth-Century South AfricaMargret Frenz, University of StuttgartChapter 10. Diversity as a fact of imperial life: Diversity as a fact of imperial life: a long-term view on Russia Jane Burbank, New York University

Elisabeth Heijmans (University of Antwerp) is an economic and social historian of French and Dutch early modern colonialism and colonial trade. She is the author of the 2020 monograph The Agency of Empire : Connections and Strategies in French Overseas Expansion (1686-1746) and has published in English, French, and Dutch.Sophie Rose is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen with an interest in the colonial Dutch Caribbean, global history, and the history of morality. She is currently adapting her PhD dissertation, Regulating Relations: Controlling Sex and Marriage in the Early Modern Dutch Empire, into a book.

• Part 1: Religion and the negotiation of belongingChapter 1. Old and New Members: Religious and Civic Conversion in the Iberian WorldsTamar Herzog, Harvard UniversityChapter 2. In and beyond the Portuguese Empire: Coping with marriage ritual diversity in early modern Goa Ângela Barreto Xavier, University of LisbonChapter 3. Barrido: A thief, Christian and Pulaya. The implications of categorization on the eighteenth century Malabar coastAlexander Geelen, International Institute of Social HistoryPart 2: Slavery and legal statusChapter 4. The uses and management of Indigenous, African and mixed-raced identities in the legal sphere in Portuguese Amazonia (18th century)André Luís Ferreira, Federal University of Pará Chapter 5. Experiences of enslaved persons with criminal justice and social control on Curaçao, 1730-1740Stef Vink, Leiden UniversityChapter 6. Indigenous populations and labor in the Dutch colonial empire – the example of the Cape and the GuianasRafaël Thiebaut, Musée du quai Branly - Jacques ChiracPart 3: Subjecthood and imperial statesChapter 7. Making Peace Beyond the Line: Capitulations, Interpolity Law, and Political Pluralism in Suriname and New Netherland, 1664-1675Timo McGregor, London School of EconomicsChapter 8. Imperfect Strangers: Frenchmen, foreigners and illegality in 18th-century GuadeloupeTessa de Boer, Leiden UniversityPart 4: Diversity in theory and practice: a longue durée perspectiveChapter 9. Colonial Segregation, Apartheid State and Rainbow Nation: Negotiating Diversity in Twentieth-Century South AfricaMargret Frenz, University of StuttgartChapter 10. Diversity as a fact of imperial life: Diversity as a fact of imperial life: a long-term view on Russia Jane Burbank, New York University

Elisabeth Heijmans (University of Antwerp) is an economic and social historian of French and Dutch early modern colonialism and colonial trade. She is the author of the 2020 monograph The Agency of Empire : Connections and Strategies in French Overseas Expansion (1686-1746) and has published in English, French, and Dutch.Sophie Rose is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen with an interest in the colonial Dutch Caribbean, global history, and the history of morality. She is currently adapting her PhD dissertation, Regulating Relations: Controlling Sex and Marriage in the Early Modern Dutch Empire, into a book.

• Part 1: Religion and the negotiation of belongingChapter 1. Old and New Members: Religious and Civic Conversion in the Iberian WorldsTamar Herzog, Harvard UniversityChapter 2. In and beyond the Portuguese Empire: Coping with marriage ritual diversity in early modern Goa Ângela Barreto Xavier, University of LisbonChapter 3. Barrido: A thief, Christian and Pulaya. The implications of categorization on the eighteenth century Malabar coastAlexander Geelen, International Institute of Social HistoryPart 2: Slavery and legal statusChapter 4. The uses and management of Indigenous, African and mixed-raced identities in the legal sphere in Portuguese Amazonia (18th century)André Luís Ferreira, Federal University of Pará Chapter 5. Experiences of enslaved persons with criminal justice and social control on Curaçao, 1730-1740Stef Vink, Leiden UniversityChapter 6. Indigenous populations and labor in the Dutch colonial empire – the example of the Cape and the GuianasRafaël Thiebaut, Musée du quai Branly - Jacques ChiracPart 3: Subjecthood and imperial statesChapter 7. Making Peace Beyond the Line: Capitulations, Interpolity Law, and Political Pluralism in Suriname and New Netherland, 1664-1675Timo McGregor, London School of EconomicsChapter 8. Imperfect Strangers: Frenchmen, foreigners and illegality in 18th-century GuadeloupeTessa de Boer, Leiden UniversityPart 4: Diversity in theory and practice: a longue durée perspectiveChapter 9. Colonial Segregation, Apartheid State and Rainbow Nation: Negotiating Diversity in Twentieth-Century South AfricaMargret Frenz, University of StuttgartChapter 10. Diversity as a fact of imperial life: Diversity as a fact of imperial life: a long-term view on Russia Jane Burbank, New York University