Navigating History : Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. C. A. Davids

Intro -- Navigating History: Economy, Society, Knowledge,and Nature: Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr C.A. Davids -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Davids and Goliath: How Books Helped to Combat Historians' Adversaries -- Part 1: Resources of Knowledge, Cultures of Learning -- 1 Religion, Culture, and the Great Enrichment -- 2 Wandering about the Learning Market: Early Modern Apprenticeship in Antwerp Gold- and Silversmith Ateliers -- 3 Educating World Citizens: The Rise of International Education in the Twenty-first Century -- Part 2: Institutions for a Global Economy -- 4 A Changing Landscape: Institutions and Institutional Change in the Dutch Economy -- 5 Social Partnership in the Northern Netherlands (1985-?) -- Part 3: Chasing Whales, Crossing Oceans -- 6 Zaanse Jonas: Zaan Whaling and Shipbuilding in the Seventeenth Century -- 7 Keeping Risk at Bay: Risk Management and Insurance in Eighteenth-century Dutch Whaling -- 8 Figuring Out Global and Local Relations: Cantonese Face-makers and their Sitters in the 18th Century -- Part 4: Chains of Profit, Chains of Labour -- 9 Chasing the Delfland: Slave Revolts, Enslavement, and (Private) VOC Networks in Early Modern Asia -- 10 "With the Power of Language and the Force of Reason": An Amsterdam Banker's Fight for Slave Owners' Compensation -- 11 Up and Down the Chain: Sugar Refiners' Responses to Changing Food Regimes -- Part 5: Humans and their Natural Environment -- 12 Enlightened Ideas in Commemoration Books of the 1825 Zuiderzee Flood in the Netherlands -- 13 Secret and Stillborn: A Dutch Fiscal Bill from 1947 to Protect Both Nature and Monuments on Dutch Estates -- 14 Birds in Texel in 1910 and the Shifting Baseline Syndrome -- List of Publications of Karel Davids 1973-2017 -- List of Doctoral Theses Supervised by Karel Davids (1997-May 2018).