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Book SynopsisIn Navigating History: Economy, Society, Knowledge, and Nature the contributors present new research that touches on the core themes developed in Karel Davids’s work. 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.
Table of ContentsPreface 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
