Karel Davids, publications in English

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Karel Davids, publications in English
My publications in English concern the following themes:
1. Growth of the knowledge economy in Europe and Asia, 700-1800
2. Evolution of economic institutions: locally, regionally, nationally, 1500-present
3. History of navigation technology, 1500-1900
4. History of labour and migration, 1300-present
1. Growth of the knowledge economy in Europe and Asia, 700 - 1800
Books
Religion, technology and the Great and the Little Divergences: Europe and China compared c.700-1800 (Brill,
Leiden, 2013)
The rise and decline of Dutch technological leadership. Technology, economy and culture in the Netherlands, 13501800 2 vols. (Brill, Leiden 2008)
Articles, chapters in books
‘On machines, self-organization and the global travelling of knowledge, c.1500-1900’, Isis, 106
(2015) no.4 , 866-874
‘Colonial, religious and commercial machines: Globalization as an impulse for knowledge’, in:
Ulrike Gehring and Peter Weibel (eds.), Mapping spaces. Networks of knowledge in 17th century
landscape painting, (Hirmer, Munich 2014) 212-219
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‘The scholarly Atlantic. Circuits of knowledge between Britain, the Dutch Republic and the
Americas in the eighteenth century’, in: Gert Oostindie and Jessica V. Roitman (eds.), Dutch
Atlantic connections, 1680-1800. Linking empires, bridging borders (Brill, Boston/Leiden 2014) 224-248
‘Great transformations. Economic history and the history of technology’, Tijdschrift voor Sociale en
Economische Geschiedenis, 11(2014) 307-326
‘Moving machine makers. The circulation of knowledge on machine-building in China and
Europe between c.1400 and the early 19th century’, in: Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden
(eds.), Technology, skills and the pre-modern economy in the East and West (Brill, Leiden 2013) 205-224
‘Gate-keeping. Who defined “useful knowledge” in early modern times ?’, History of Technology , 31
(2012) 69-88
‘In the shadow of Jesuits: Vossius and geography’, in: Eric Jorink en Dirk van Miert (eds.), Isaac
Vossius between science and scholarship (Leiden 2012) 189-206
‘Humanism and water management: Scaliger’s Discours de la ionction des mers’, LIAS. Journal of Early
Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources, 37 (2010) 1-22
‘Dutch and Spanish global networks of knowledge in the early modern period: Structures,
connections, changes’, in: Lissa Roberts (ed.), Centres of accumulation in the Low Countries in the early
modern period (Münster 2011) 29-52
‘Craft secrecy in Europe in the early modern period: a comparative view’. Early science and medicine.
A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period, 10 (2005), 341-348
‘Apprenticeship and guild control in the Netherlands, c.1450-1800’, in: B. De Munck, S. Kaplan
and H. Soly, (red.), Learning on the shop floor. Historical perspectives on apprenticeship (Berghahn; New
York/Oxford 2007) 65-84
‘River control and the evolution of knowledge: a comparison between regions in China and
Europe, c.1400 – 1850’, Journal of Global History, 1 (2006) 59-79
‘The bookkeeper’s tale. Learning merchant skills in the Northern Netherlands in the sixteenth
century’, in: K. Goudriaan, J. van Moolenbroek en A. Tervoort (red.), Education and learning in the
Netherlands 1400-1600. Essays in honour of prof.dr. H. de Ridder-Symoens (Leiden 2004) 235-252
‘Innovations in windmill technology in Europe, 1500-1800?’, Atti XXXIV Settimana di Studi
Economia ed energia, secc.XIII-XVIII `Economia e energia secc.XIII-XVIII’, Prato, 2003, 271-291
(reprinted as: ‘Innovations in windmill technology in Europe c.1500-1800. The state of research
and future directions of inquiry’, NEHA-jaarboek voor de economische, bedrijfs- en techniekgeschiedenis, 66
(2003) 43-63)
‘Amsterdam as a centre of learning in the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic, 1580-1700’, in:
P.K. O’Brien, D. Keene, M.C.’ t Hart en H. van der Wee (eds.), Urban achievement in Early Modern
Europe. Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London (Cambridge, 2001) 305-325
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‘Successful and failed transitions. A comparison of windmill-technology in Britain and the
Netherlands in the early modern period’, History and Technology, 14 (1998), 225-247
‘Shifts of technological leadership in early modern Europe’, in: Karel Davids en Jan Lucassen
(red.), A Miracle Mirrored. The Dutch Republic in European perspective (Cambridge 1995) 338-366
‘Sources of technological change in the Dutch Guianas, c.1670-1860’, in: A.Lafuente, A.Elena en
M.L.Ortega (red.), Mundialización de la ciencia y cultura nacional (Madrid 1993) 659-672
‘Technological change and the economic expansion of the Dutch Republic, c.1580-1680’,
Economic and Social History in the Netherlands, 4 (1993), 79-104
‘Recasting the history of technology in the Netherlands', Tractrix. Yearbook for the history of science,
medicine, technology and mathematics, 5(1993), 161-170
‘Follow the actors ? Some recent Dutch studies on the history of science and technology',
Tractrix. Yearbook for the history of science, medicine, technology and mathematics, 3(1991), 193-202
‘Learned societies' in: W.P.Blockmans, W. Fischer (eds.) The Making of Europe (Hilversum 1993),
69-80]
‘The transfer of technology between Britain and the Netherlands, 1700-1850' in: J.R.Bruijn and
W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns (eds.), Anglo-Dutch Mercantile Marine Relations 1700-1850 (Amsterdam 1991),
7-23
‘The transfer of windmill technology from the Netherlands to north-eastern Europe from the
16th to the early 19th century’, in: J.Ph.S.Lemmink and J.S.A.M.van Koningsbrugge (eds.), Baltic
affairs. Relations between the Netherlands and North-Eastern Europe 1500-1800 (Nijmegen 1990) 33-52
2.. Evolution of economic institutions: locally, regionally, nationally, 1500-present
Books
(ed. with Bert de Munck), Innovation and creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cities
(Ashgate, Farnham 2014)
(with Patrick Pasture and Greta Devos) (eds.)), Changing liaisons. The Dynamics of Consultative
Arrangements in 20th century West-European Democracies (Peter Lang, Brussel, 2007)
(with Marc Boone and Paul Janssens) (eds.), Urban public debts, urban government and the market for
annuities in Western Europe, 14th-18th centuries (Brepols, Turnhout, 2003)
(with Jan Lucassen, co-edited and co-authored), A miracle mirrored. The Dutch Republic in European
perspective (Cambridge UP, Cambridge 1995, 2011²)
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(with Leo Noordegraaf (eds.)), The Dutch economy in the Golden Age. Nine studies (NEHA,
Amsterdam 1993)
Articles, chapters in books
(met Bert de Munck), ‘Innovation and creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European
cities: An introduction’, in: Karel Davids en Bert de Munck (red.), Innovation and creativity in Late
Medieval and Early Modern European cities (Ashgate, Farnham, 2014) 1-34
(met Bert de Munck), ‘Beyond exclusivism. Entrance fees for guilds in the Early Modern Low
Countries, c.14501-800’, in: Karel Davids en Bert de Munck (red.), Innovation and creativity in Late
Medieval and Early Modern European cities (Ashgate, Farnham, 2014) 189-224
(with Marjolein ’t Hart) , ‘Is the polder model good for the economy ?’, BMGN Low Countries
Historical Review, 129 (2014) 90-96
(with Marjolein ’t Hart) ‘The navy and the rise of the state. The case of the Netherlands c.15701810’, in: Jürgen Backhaus, Nicholas Kyriazis and Nicholas Rodger (eds.), Navies and state
formation . The Schumpeter hypothesis revisited and reflected (LIT Verlag, Münster 2012) 273-316
‘Economic discourse in Europe between Scholasticism and Mandeville : convergence, divergence
and the case of the Dutch Republic’, in: Hubertus Bussche en Stefan Hessbrüggen (eds.)
Departure for modern Europe/Aufbruch in das moderne Europa. A handbook of early modern philosophy
(Hamburg 2011) 80-95
‘Regions, families, religion: continuity and change in social contexts of entrepreneurship between
1800 and 2000 ’, in: Marco van Gelderen en Enno Masurel (red.), Context of entrepreneurship
(London 2011) 127-138
‘Public services in early modern European towns: An agenda for further research’, Journal of
Urban History, 36 (2010) 386-392
‘The Dutch Republic: a water-borne power ? Naval power and the maritime sector in the
Netherlands, c. 1590-1795’, in: Peter Borschberg en Martin Krieger (eds.), Water and state in
Europe and Asia (Delhi: Manohar 2008) 185-203
‘The transformation of an old industrial district : firms, family and mutuality in the Zaanstreek
between c.1840 and 1920’ , Enterprise and Society, 7 (2006) 550-580
‘Amsterdam’, in: John McCusker e.a. (eds.), Encyclopedia of World Trade since 1450 (Macmillan,
Farmington Hills, MI 2006), vol..I, 17-18
‘Public knowledge and common secrets. Secrecy and its limits in the early modern Netherlands?,
Early science and medicine. A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern
Period, 10 (2005), 411-427
‘From De la Court to Vreede. Regulation and self-regulation in Dutch economic discourse
between 1660 and the Napoleonic Era’ , The Journal of European Economic History, 30 (2001), 245289
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‘Patents and patentees in the Dutch Republic, 1580-1720’, History and Technology 16 (2000), 263283
‘Openness or secrecy ? Industrial espionage in the Dutch Republic’, The Journal of European
Economic History, 24 (1995), 333-348
‘Beginning entrepreneurs and municipal governments at the time of the Dutch Republic’, in
C.Lesger and L.Noordegraaf (eda.), Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in early modern times. Merchants
and industrialists within the orbit of the Dutch staple market (Den Haag 1995) 167-184
3. History of navigation technology, 1500-1900
Books
(edited, with an introduction) Gemma Frisius, De principiis astronomiae et cosmographiae (1553)
(Scholar’s Facsimiles and Reprints, New York 1992)
Articles, chapters in books
‘The Longitude Committee and the practice of navigation in the Netherlands, c.1750-1850’, in:
Richard Dunn and Rebekah Higgitt (eds.) Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 17301880 (Palgrave Macmillan, London 2015) 32-46.
‘Navigators’, in: John B. Hattendorf (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History (Oxford/New
York 2007) vol. III, 71-78
‘Navigational manuals’, in: John B. Hattendorf (ed., )The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History
(Oxford/New York 2007) vol. III, 67-71
‘Willem Jansz. Blaeu’, in: John B. Hattendorf (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History
(Oxford/New York 2007) vol.I, 295-297
‘Cartography and navigation in the North Atlantic in the late 16th and early 17th centuries: A
comparison of England and the Northern Netherlands', in: Proceedings International Willem Barentsz
Symposium (Terschelling 1998) 48-52
‘The science and practice of navigation’, 4 chapters in: J. Hattendorf (ed.), Maritime history vol 2:
The eighteenth century and the classic age of sail (Malabar, Flo., 1997), 47-54, 79-93, 101-108
‘Technological change and the professionalism of masters and mates in the Dutch mercantile
marine, 1815-1914’, Collectanea Maritima, V (1991), 282-303
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‘Finding longitude at sea by magnetic declination on Dutch East-Indiamen, 1596-1795’, The
American Neptune, 50(1990), 281-290
‘Dutch contributions to the development of navigation technology in the 17th century', in: Ch.
Wilson and D. Proctor (eds.), 1688. The seaborne alliance and diplomatic revolution. Proceedings of an
international symposium held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 5-6 October 1988 (Londen
1989), 59-74
‘On the diffusion of nautical knowledge from the Netherlands to north-eastern Europe, 15501850’, in: W.G.Heeres e.a. (eds.), From Dunkirk to Danzig. Shipping and trade in the North Sea and the
Baltic 1350-1850 (Hilversum 1988) 217-236
‘The use of globes on ships of the Dutch East-India Company’, Der Globusfreund. Wissenschaftliche
Zeitschrift für Globen- und Instrumentenkunde, nr.35-37(1987), 69-80
4. History of labour and migration, 1300-present
Articles, chapters in books
‘Local and global: seafaring communities in the North Sea area, c. 1600-2000’, International
Journal of Maritime History, 27 (2015) 629-646
‘White collar workers of the VOC in Amsterdam, 1602-1795’, in: Marcel van der Linden and Leo
Lucassen (eds.), Working on labor. Essays in honor of Jan Lucassen (Leiden 2012) 191-212
‘German sailors in the Dutch mercantile marine from the early 17th tot the end of the 18th
century’, in: Klaus J. Bade, Pieter C. Emmer, Leo Lucassen and Jochen Olmer (eds.), The
encyclopedia of migration and minorities in Europe from the 17th century to the present (Cambridge 2011) 433435)
‘Maritime labour in the Netherlands, 1570-1870’, Research in Maritime History nr.13 (1997) 41-72
‘Seamen’s organisations and social protest in Europe, c.1300-1825’, International Review of Social
History, 39 (1994), nr. 4, 145-169

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