Preface XI
Pepijn Brandon, Sabine Go, and Wybren Verstegen
List of Illustrations XV
Notes on Contributors XVII
Davids and Goliath: How Books Helped to Combat Historians’ Adversaries 1
Marjolein ’t Hart and Jan Lucassen
Part 1
Resources of Knowledge, Cultures of Learning
1
Religion, Culture, and the Great Enrichment 15
Joel Mokyr
2
Wandering about the Learning Market: Early Modern Apprenticeship in Antwerp Gold- and Silversmith Ateliers 36
Bert De Munck and Raoul De Kerf
3
Educating World Citizens: The Rise of International Education in the Twenty-first Century 64
Pál Nyíri
Part 2
Institutions for a Global Economy
4
A Changing Landscape: Institutions and Institutional Change in the Dutch Economy 81
Jeroen Touwen
5
Social Partnership in the Northern Netherlands (1985-?) 102
Part 3
Chasing Whales, Crossing Oceans
6
Zaanse Jonas: Zaan Whaling and Shipbuilding in the Seventeenth Century 123
Victor Enthoven
7
Keeping Risk at Bay: Risk Management and Insurance in Eighteenth-century Dutch Whaling 146
Sabine Go and Jaap Bruijn
8
Figuring Out Global and Local Relations: Cantonese Face-makers and their Sitters in the 18th Century 170
Joost C.A. Schokkenbroek
Part 4
Chains of Profit, Chains of Labour
9
Chasing the Delfland: Slave Revolts, Enslavement, and (Private) VOC Networks in Early Modern Asia 201
Matthias van Rossum
10
“With the Power of Language and the Force of Reason”: An Amsterdam Banker’s Fight for Slave Owners’ Compensation 228
Pepijn Brandon and Karin Lurvink
11
Up and Down the Chain: Sugar Refiners’ Responses to Changing Food Regimes 249
Ulbe Bosma
Part 5
Humans and their Natural Environment
12
Enlightened Ideas in Commemoration Books of the 1825 Zuiderzee Flood in the Netherlands 275
Petra J.E.M. van Dam and Harm Pieters
13
Secret and Stillborn: A Dutch Fiscal Bill from 1947 to Protect Both Nature and Monuments on Dutch Estates 298
14
Birds in Texel in 1910 and the Shifting Baseline Syndrome 317
Jan Luiten van Zanden
List of Publications of Karel Davids 1973–2017 329
List of Doctoral Theses Supervised by Karel Davids (1997-May 2018) 343
Index 345