{"product_id":"navigating-history-economy-society-knowledge-and-nature-essays-in-honour-of-prof-dr-c-a-davids-9789004381551","title":"Navigating History: Economy, Society, Knowledge, and Nature: Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. C.A. Davids","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210759889239,"sku":"9789004381551","price":147.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/navigating-history-economy-society-knowledge-and-nature-essays-in-honour-of-prof-dr-c-a-davids-9789004381551","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}