Greta Devos

Patrick Pasture

Karel Davids

C. A. Davids

Furthering our understanding of concrete and topical developments in the growth of social partnership economies, this text discusses the impact of potential triggers, such as wars and economic crises, on the development of consultative arrangements.

The Dynamics of Social Partnership in 20th Century West-European Democracies

Changing Liaisons

Jan Lucassen

A 1996 comparative study of the Netherlands from the late sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century.

The Dutch Republic in European Perspective

A Miracle Mirrored

Bert De Munck

Late medieval and early modern cities are often depicted as cradles of artistic creativity and hotbeds of new material culture. Cities in renaissance Italy and in seventeenth and eighteenth-century northwestern Europe are the most obvious cases in point. But, how did this come about? Why did cities rather than rural environments produce new artistic genres, new products and new techniques? How did pre-industrial cities evolve into centres of innovation and creativity? As the most urbanized regions of continental Europe in this period, Italy and the Low Countries provide a rich source of case studies, as the contributors to this volume demonstrate. They set out to examine the relationship between institutional arrangements and regulatory mechanisms such as citizenship and guild rules and innovation and creativity in late medieval and early modern cities. They analyze whether, in what context and why regulation or deregulation influenced innovation and creativity, and what the impact was of long-term changes in the political and economic sphere.

Innovation and Creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cities

buitenlandse invloeden op cultuur, economie en politiek in Nederland 1580-1800

De Republiek tussen zee en vasteland

This book 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.

Technology, Economy and Culture in the Netherlands, 1350-1800 (2 Vols.)

The Rise and Decline of Dutch Technological Leadership (2 Vols)

L. Noordegraaf

Nine Studies

The Dutch Economy in the Golden Age

Karel Davids

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