Navigating History: Economy, Society, Knowledge, and Nature

Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. C.A. Davids

Pepijn Brandon, Go Sabine, Verstegen Wybren (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

376 Seiten

2018
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-38155-1 (ISBN)

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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 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 ’t 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.

Preface

Pepijn Brandon, Sabine Go, and Wybren Verstegen

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Introduction: Davids and Goliath: How Books Helped to Combat Historians’ Adversaries

Marjolein Hart’t and Jan Lucassen

Section 1: Resources of Knowledge, Cultures of Learning

1 Religion, Culture and the Great Enrichment

Joel Mokyr

2 Wandering about the Learning Market: Early Modern Apprenticeship in Antwerp Gold- and Silversmith Ateliers

Bert De Munck and Raoul De Kerf

3 Educating World Citizens: The Rise of International Education in the Twenty-first Century

Pál Nyiri

Section 2: Institutions for a Global Economy

4 A Changing Landscape: Institutions and Institutional Change in the Dutch Economy

Jeroen Touwen

5 Social Partnership in the Northern Netherlands (1985-?)

Marijn Molema

Section 3: Chasing Whales, Crossing Oceans

5 Zaanse Jonas: Zaan Whaling and Shipbuilding in the Seventeenth Century

Victor Enthoven

7 Keeping Risk at Bay: Risk Management and Insurance in Eighteenth-century Dutch Whaling

Sabine Go and Jaap Bruijn

8 Figuring Out Global and Local Relations: Cantonese Face-makers and their Sitters in the 18th Century

Joost C.A. Schokkenbroek

Section 4: Chains of Profit, Chains of Labour

9 Chasing the Delfland: Slave Revolts, Enslavement, and (Private) voc Networks in Early Modern Asia

Matthias van Rossum

10 “With the Power of Language and the Force of Reason”: An Amsterdam Banker’s Fight for Slave Owners’ Compensation

Pepijn Brandon and Karin Lurvink

11 Up and Down the Chain: Sugar Refiners’ Responses to Changing Food Regimes

Ulbe Bosma

Section 5: Humans and their Natural Environment

12 Enlightened Ideas in Commemoration Books of the 1825 Zuiderzee Flood in the Netherlands

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

Wybren Verstegen

14 Birds in Texel in 1910 and the Shifting Baseline Syndrome

Jan Luiten van Zanden

List of Publications of Karel Davids 1973–2017

List of Doctoral Theses Supervised by Karel Davids (1997-May 2018)

Index of Names and Geographic Locations

Erscheinungsdatum	09.11.2018
Reihe/Serie	Library of Economic History ; 11
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	714 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-38155-4 / 9004381554
ISBN-13	978-90-04-38155-1 / 9789004381551
Zustand	Neuware