The Rise and Decline of Dutch Technological Leadership (2 vols)
Technology, Economy and Culture in the Netherlands, 1350-1800 (2 Vols.)
Biographical note
Karel Davids, Ph.D.(1986) in History, University of Leiden, is Professor of Economic and Social History at the VU University Amsterdam. He has published extensively on the history of technology, economic history and maritime history of the Netherlands (including, with Jan Lucassen (ed.), A Miracle Mirrored. The Dutch Republic in European Perspective (Cambridge UP, 1995)) and on various themes in global history.
Readership
All those interested in the history of technology, economic history, the history of the Netherlands and the history of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period.
Reviews
"[This] is a major contribution to two fields that, as the author points out, have until now overlapped very little. One is the economic history of the Netherlands during the classic golden age (including the centuries before and after), the other is the economic history of technology. In a dazzling display of scholarship and erudition, Davids provides an amazingly detailed and learned account of the role of technology in the Dutch golden age. The astonishing thing is that he has made a major contribution to the union and not just to the intersection of the two fields. This book will be read by historians of the Dutch golden age who have but little interest in technology, and it will be equally read by historians of technology who work on countries remote from the Netherlands. It is just that good. (…) what you have here is a magisterial, definitive work of scholarship."
Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
"Allen an der Geschichte der Niederlande und der Wirtschafts- und Technikgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit Interessierten müssen Davids differenziert argumentierende Bände empfolen werden."
Uwe Fraunholz, Vierteljahrgeschichte für Social- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 96 Band, Heft 3 (2009, 415-416 pp.
"... a standard resource for people interested in the history of technology in the Netherlands ..."
Lissa Roberts, The Low Countries Historical Review (BMGN), vol. 125 (4) 2010, 115-116
Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
"Allen an der Geschichte der Niederlande und der Wirtschafts- und Technikgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit Interessierten müssen Davids differenziert argumentierende Bände empfolen werden."
Uwe Fraunholz, Vierteljahrgeschichte für Social- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 96 Band, Heft 3 (2009, 415-416 pp.
"... a standard resource for people interested in the history of technology in the Netherlands ..."
Lissa Roberts, The Low Countries Historical Review (BMGN), vol. 125 (4) 2010, 115-116
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables and Maps
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
1. The Emergence of the Dutch Republic
2. Perceptions of Leadership
3. Technological Change and Dutch Economic Expansion between c.1350 and 1800
4. The Northern Netherlands as a Recipient of Technical Knowledge between c.1350 and 1800
5. The Northern Netherlands as an Exporter of Technical Knowledge between c.1350 and 1800
6. The Rise of Dutch Technological Leadership
7. The Decline of Dutch Technological Leadership
Conclusion
Sources and Bibliography
Index
List of Tables and Maps
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
1. The Emergence of the Dutch Republic
2. Perceptions of Leadership
3. Technological Change and Dutch Economic Expansion between c.1350 and 1800
4. The Northern Netherlands as a Recipient of Technical Knowledge between c.1350 and 1800
5. The Northern Netherlands as an Exporter of Technical Knowledge between c.1350 and 1800
6. The Rise of Dutch Technological Leadership
7. The Decline of Dutch Technological Leadership
Conclusion
Sources and Bibliography
Index
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