Navigating History: Economy, Society, Knowledge, and Nature : : Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. C.A. Davids / / Pepijn Brandon, Go Sabine, Verstegen Wybren.
In Navigating History: Economy, Society, Knowledge, and Nature the contributors present new research that touches on the core themes developed in Karel Davids’s work. The book reflects Davids’s omnivorous character as a scholar. Nevertheless, there are common strands that run throughout the introduc...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, , Boston : : BRILL,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of Economic History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (353 pages). |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Davids and Goliath: How Books Helped to Combat Historians’ Adversaries / Marjolein ’t Hart and Jan Lucassen
- Resources of Knowledge, Cultures of Learning
- Religion, Culture, and the Great Enrichment / Joel Mokyr
- Wandering about the Learning Market: Early Modern Apprenticeship in Antwerp Gold- and Silversmith Ateliers / Bert De Munck and Raoul De Kerf
- Educating World Citizens: The Rise of International Education in the Twenty-first Century / Pál Nyíri
- Institutions for a Global Economy
- A Changing Landscape: Institutions and Institutional Change in the Dutch Economy / Jeroen Touwen
- Social Partnership in the Northern Netherlands (1985-?) / Marijn Molema
- Chasing Whales, Crossing Oceans
- Zaanse Jonas: Zaan Whaling and Shipbuilding in the Seventeenth Century / Victor Enthoven
- Keeping Risk at Bay: Risk Management and Insurance in Eighteenth-century Dutch Whaling / Sabine Go and Jaap Bruijn
- Figuring Out Global and Local Relations: Cantonese Face-makers and their Sitters in the 18th Century / Joost C.A. Schokkenbroek
- Chains of Profit, Chains of Labour
- Chasing the Delfland: Slave Revolts, Enslavement, and (Private) VOC Networks in Early Modern Asia / Matthias van Rossum
- “With the Power of Language and the Force of Reason”: An Amsterdam Banker’s Fight for Slave Owners’ Compensation / Pepijn Brandon and Karin Lurvink
- Up and Down the Chain: Sugar Refiners’ Responses to Changing Food Regimes / Ulbe Bosma
- Humans and their Natural Environment
- Enlightened Ideas in Commemoration Books of the 1825 Zuiderzee Flood in the Netherlands / Petra J.E.M. van Dam and Harm Pieters
- Secret and Stillborn: A Dutch Fiscal Bill from 1947 to Protect Both Nature and Monuments on Dutch Estates / Wybren Verstegen
- Birds in Texel in 1910 and the Shifting Baseline Syndrome / Jan Luiten van Zanden
- Back Matter
- Index.