Navigating History ― Economy, Society, Knowledge, and Nature; Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. C.a. Davids

Social and economic historians present studies in resources of knowledge, cultures of learning; institutions for a global economy; chasing whales, crossing oceans; chains of profit, chains of labor; and humans and their natural environment. Among their topics are wandering about the learning markets: early modern apprenticeship in Antwerp goldsmith and silversmith ateliers, Zaanse Jonas: Zaan whaling and shipbuilding in the 17th century, figuring out global and local relations: Cantonese face-makers and their sitters in the 18th century, Enlightenment ideas in commemoration books of the 1825 Zuiderzee Flood in the Netherlands, and secret and stillborn: a Dutch fiscal bill from 1947 to protect both nature and monuments on Dutch estates. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Pepijn Brandon is Assistant Professor in Social and Economic History at VU Amsterdam and Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History. He obtained his PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2013. His research focuses on connections between capitalist development, war, and slavery. He is author of War, capital, and the Dutch state (1588-1795) (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2015), and a member of the editorial committee of the International Review of Social History.

Sabine Go is Assistant Professor of Accounting at the School of Business and Economics of VU Amsterdam. She is particularly interested in the emergence and development of economic institutions during early modern and modern times in the Low Countries. Her current research focuses on contract enforcement and governance issues. She collaborates as Senior Visiting Fellow in an ERC Consolidator Grant Project on General Average, Transaction Costs and Risk Management during the First Globalization.

Wybren Verstegen is Assistant Professor in Economic and Social History at VU Amsterdam. He teaches Global History, the History of the United States and the US South. His dissertation about nobility and society in the revolutionary era in Veluwe-district (in the east of the Netherlands) was published in 1989. He has written many scientific and newspaper articles concerning environmental history and sustainability. Recently he published the book Vrije wandeling. Het parlement, de fiscus en de bescherming van het particuliere Nederlandse natuurschoon tussen 1924-1995 (Groningen: Historia Agriculturae, 2017) as well as several articles about nature protection on estates in the Netherlands in the twentieth century.