The Rise and Decline of Dutch Technological Leadership (2 Vols)

Technology, Economy and Culture in the Netherlands, 1350-1800
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16865-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 634 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1372 g

Reihe: Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy

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 as the history of the economic expansion of the Dutch Republic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davids, Karel

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.