| The Rise and Decline of Dutch Technological Leadership (2 Vols): Technology, Economy and Culture in the Netherlands, 1350-1800 Contributor(s): Davids (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004168656 ISBN-13: 9789004168657 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $253.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Western Europe - General - Technology & Engineering | History - Business & Economics | Economic History |
| Dewey: 609.492 |
| Series: History of Science and Medicine Library |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (1.65 lbs) 633 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Benelux - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Chronological Period - Modern - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |