The Birth of Modern Europe

Culture and Economy, 1400-1800. Essays in Honor of Jan de Vries
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18934-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Library of Economic History

It seems undeniable that Jan de Vries has cast an indelible impression upon the field of early modern economic history. With his rejection of traditional models that left pre-industrial Europe with little to no role to play in modern development, de Vries’ work has laid claim to the rich significance of the early modern period as the birth of the contemporary West.

Culminating in The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy 1650 to the Present (2008), his work has changed the way scholars conceptualize and study this dynamic period, as the contributors in this volume attest. Utilizing the methods and concepts pioneered by de Vries, these authors display the depth and breadth of his influence, with applications ranging from trade to architecture, from the Netherlands to China, and from the 1400s to the present day.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cruz, Laura

Mokyr, Joel

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Jan de Vries and his Contributions, Joel Mokyr

The Birth of Modern Europe: Determining the Margins of the Work of Jan de Vries, Laura Cruz

The Tobacco Nation: English Tobacco Dealers and Pipe-Makers in Rotterdam, 1620- 1650, Wim Klooster

The Market for Architecture in Holland, 1500-1815, Maarten Prak

From Shelf to Maps: Reconstructing Bookselling Networks in the Seventeenth Century Netherlands, Laura Cruz

Hoare´s Bank in the Eighteenth Century, Peter Temin and Hans-Joachim Voth

Modest Households and Globally Traded Textiles:Evidence from Amsterdam Household Inventories, Anne McCants

Britain’s Asian Century: Porcelain and Global History in the Long Eighteenth Century, Maxine Berg

Repeat Migration between Europe and the United States, 1870-1914, Drew Keeling

The Industrious Revolution and Labour Force Participation of Rural Women Evidence from Mid-Nineteenth-Century France, George Grantham and Franque Grimard

The Industrious Revolution in America, Gavin Wright

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Cruz is an Associate Professor of History at Western Carolina University and Director of the Coulter Faculty Center. She currently serves as the President of the Society for Netherlandic History. Her research focuses on the economic culture of the Golden Age Netherlands, as exemplified in her recent book, The Paradox of Prosperity (Oak Knoll, 2009).

Joel Mokyr is the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History at Northwestern University and Sackler Professor (by special appointment) at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at the University of Tel Aviv. He specializes in economic history and the economics of technological change and population change and has authored over 80 books and articles on these subjects. His most recent work, The Enlightened Economy, was published in 2009 by Yale University Press and Penguin Books.