The rise and decline of Dutch technological leadership : : technology, economy and culture in the Netherlands, 1350-1800 / / by Karel Davids.

• Author: Davids, C. A.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2008.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (666 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Technological leadership is an important topic in economic history and the history of technology. This book addresses the issue of technological leadership by means of an in-depth study on the Dutch Republic, once described as ‘the first modern economy’. Drawing on extensive research in archives in Europe and a vast amount of printed sources and secondary literature, it provides a wide-ranging overview of Dutch technological leadership in the early modern Europe, it explains whence this leadership came about and why it ended and it explores to what extent the Dutch case illuminates the evolution of technological leadership in general. This book is thus relevant for the study of technological leadership, the development of technology in the early modern period as well as the history of the economic expansion of the Dutch Republic.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Materials / C.A. Davids -- Introduction / C.A. Davids -- Chapter One. The Emergence Of The Dutch Republic / C.A. Davids -- Chapter Two. Perceptions Of Leadership / C.A. Davids -- Chapter Three. Technological Change And Dutch Economic Expansion Between C. 1350 And 1800 / C.A. Davids -- Chapter Four. The Northern Netherlands As A Recipient Of Technical Knowledge Between C. 1350 And 1800 / C.A. Davids -- Preliminary Materials / C.A. Davids -- Chapter Five. The Northern Netherlands As An Exporter Of Technical Knowledge Between C. 1350 And 1800 / C.A. Davids -- Chapter Six. The Rise Of Dutch Technological Leadership / C.A. Davids -- Chapter Seven. The Decline Of Dutch Technological Leadership / C.A. Davids -- Conclusion / C.A. Davids -- Sources And Bibliography / C.A. Davids -- Index / C.A. Davids.