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Navigating History: Economy, Society, Knowledge, and Nature
Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. C.A. Davids
Series: - Library of Economic History, Volume: 11
In Navigating History: Economy, Society, Knowledge, and Nature the contributors present new research that touches on the core themes developed in Karel Davidsâs work. The book reflects Davidsâs omnivorous character as a scholar. Nevertheless, there are common strands that run throughout the introduction and fourteen chapters gathered here. Major themes include resources of knowledge, cultures of learning, and humans and their natural environment. Together, these fourteen essays provide a fascinating panorama of social, economic, and environmental history of the past millennium. The book seeks to bring back the different levels of geographical scope, fusing the local, the national and the global.
Contributors are: Ulbe Bosma, Pepijn Brandon, Jaap Bruijn, Petra van Dam, Victor Enthoven, Sabine Go, Marjolein ât Hart, Raoul De Kerf, Jan Lucassen, Karin Lurvink, Joel Mokyr, Marijn Molema, Bert de Munck, Pál Nyiri, Harm Pieters, Matthias van Rossum, Joost Schokkenbroek, Jeroen Touwen, Wybren Verstegen, and Jan Luiten van Zanden.
Contributors are: Ulbe Bosma, Pepijn Brandon, Jaap Bruijn, Petra van Dam, Victor Enthoven, Sabine Go, Marjolein ât Hart, Raoul De Kerf, Jan Lucassen, Karin Lurvink, Joel Mokyr, Marijn Molema, Bert de Munck, Pál Nyiri, Harm Pieters, Matthias van Rossum, Joost Schokkenbroek, Jeroen Touwen, Wybren Verstegen, and Jan Luiten van Zanden.
Pepijn Brandon is Assistant Professor in Social and Economic History at VU Amsterdam and Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History. He obtained his PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2013. His research focuses on connections between capitalist development, war, and slavery. He is author of War, capital, and the Dutch state (1588-1795) (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2015), and a member of the editorial committee of the International Review of Social History.
Sabine Go is Assistant Professor of Accounting at the School of Business and Economics of VU Amsterdam. She is particularly interested in the emergence and development of economic institutions during early modern and modern times in the Low Countries. Her current research focuses on contract enforcement and governance issues. She collaborates as Senior Visiting Fellow in an ERC Consolidator Grant Project on General Average, Transaction Costs and Risk Management during the First Globalization.
Wybren Verstegen is Assistant Professor in Economic and Social History at VU Amsterdam. He teaches Global History, the History of the United States and the US South. His dissertation about nobility and society in the revolutionary era in Veluwe-district (in the east of the Netherlands) was published in 1989. He has written many scientific and newspaper articles concerning environmental history and sustainability. Recently he published the book Vrije wandeling. Het parlement, de fiscus en de bescherming van het particuliere Nederlandse natuurschoon tussen 1924-1995 (Groningen: Historia Agriculturae, 2017) as well as several articles about nature protection on estates in the Netherlands in the twentieth century.
Sabine Go is Assistant Professor of Accounting at the School of Business and Economics of VU Amsterdam. She is particularly interested in the emergence and development of economic institutions during early modern and modern times in the Low Countries. Her current research focuses on contract enforcement and governance issues. She collaborates as Senior Visiting Fellow in an ERC Consolidator Grant Project on General Average, Transaction Costs and Risk Management during the First Globalization.
Wybren Verstegen is Assistant Professor in Economic and Social History at VU Amsterdam. He teaches Global History, the History of the United States and the US South. His dissertation about nobility and society in the revolutionary era in Veluwe-district (in the east of the Netherlands) was published in 1989. He has written many scientific and newspaper articles concerning environmental history and sustainability. Recently he published the book Vrije wandeling. Het parlement, de fiscus en de bescherming van het particuliere Nederlandse natuurschoon tussen 1924-1995 (Groningen: Historia Agriculturae, 2017) as well as several articles about nature protection on estates in the Netherlands in the twentieth century.
Preface
âPepijn Brandon, Sabine Go, and Wybren Verstegen
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction: Davids and Goliath: How Books Helped to Combat Historiansâ Adversaries
âMarjolein Hartât and Jan Lucassen
Section 1: Resources of Knowledge, Cultures of Learning
1 Religion, Culture and the Great Enrichment
âJoel Mokyr
2 Wandering about the Learning Market: Early Modern Apprenticeship in Antwerp Gold- and Silversmith Ateliers
âBert De Munck and Raoul De Kerf
3 Educating World Citizens: The Rise of International Education in the Twenty-first Century
âPál Nyiri
Section 2: Institutions for a Global Economy
4 A Changing Landscape: Institutions and Institutional Change in the Dutch Economy
âJeroen Touwen
5 Social Partnership in the Northern Netherlands (1985-?)
âMarijn Molema
Section 3: Chasing Whales, Crossing Oceans
5 Zaanse Jonas: Zaan Whaling and Shipbuilding in the Seventeenth Century
âVictor Enthoven
7 Keeping Risk at Bay: Risk Management and Insurance in Eighteenth-century Dutch Whaling
âSabine Go and Jaap Bruijn
8 Figuring Out Global and Local Relations: Cantonese Face-makers and their Sitters in the 18th Century
âJoost C.A. Schokkenbroek
Section 4: Chains of Profit, Chains of Labour
9 Chasing the Delfland: Slave Revolts, Enslavement, and (Private)
âMatthias van Rossum
10 âWith the Power of Language and the Force of Reasonâ: An Amsterdam Bankerâs Fight for Slave Ownersâ Compensation
âPepijn Brandon and Karin Lurvink
11 Up and Down the Chain: Sugar Refinersâ Responses to Changing Food Regimes
âUlbe Bosma
Section 5: Humans and their Natural Environment
12 Enlightened Ideas in Commemoration Books of the 1825 Zuiderzee Flood in the Netherlands
âPetra 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
âWybren Verstegen
14 Birds in Texel in 1910 and the Shifting Baseline Syndrome
âJan Luiten van Zanden
List of Publications of Karel Davids 1973â2017
List of Doctoral Theses Supervised by Karel Davids (1997-May 2018)
Index of Names and Geographic Locations