Author: Karel Davids
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9789004168657
2008; Hardcover;180x260mm;901 pages
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 ad the history of the economic expansion of the Dutch Republic.
About the Author
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.
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9789004168657
2008; Hardcover;180x260mm;901 pages
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 ad the history of the economic expansion of the Dutch Republic.
About the Author
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.
Table of Contents
Volume 1
Chapter One The Emergence of the Dutch Republic
Chapter Two Perceptions of Leadership
Chapter Three Technological Change and Dutch Economic
Chapter Four The Northern Netherlands as a Recipient of
Volume 2
Chapter Five The Northern Netherlands as an Exporter of Technical Knowledge between c. 1350 and 1800
Chapter Six The Rise of Dutch Technological
Chapter Seven The Decline of Dutch Technological
Conclusion
Sources and Bibliography
Index
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