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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Introduction: Globalization, knowledge and the Atlantic world -- Key issues -- Globalization -- Knowledge -- The Atlantic world, c. 1660-1860 -- Globalizing forces -- Approach and argument -- Part 1: Globalizing forces and the growth of maritime knowledge in the Atlantic world, c. 1660-1730 -- Introduction: Globalization between c. 1660 and 1730 -- Chapter 1: Globalizing forces and the growth of maritime knowledge -- Machines and the making of infrastructure -- Self-organization and social networks -- Chapter 2: Growing maritime knowledge and globalization -- Designing ships, navigating the ocean and probing the depths -- Observing living creatures in and above the water -- Keeping the humans on board alive -- Conclusion -- Capabilities and limitations -- Changes -- Part 2: Maritime knowledge and globalization in the Atlantic world, c. 1730-1800 -- Introduction: Globalization between c. 1730 and 1800 -- Chapter 3: The maritime knowledge supporting globalization -- Faster ships -- Improving the chances of survival: Mortality and health care -- Chapter 4: The globalizing forces supporting maritime knowledge -- Imperial and commercial machines and the growth of infrastructure for maritime knowledge -- Self-organized networks and the circulation of maritime knowledge -- Conclusion -- Capabilities and limitations -- Changes -- Part 3: The reshaping of the Atlantic world and the collectivization of maritime knowledge, c. 1800-60 -- Introduction: Globalization between c. 1800 and 1860 -- Chapter 5: Maritime knowledge and globalization: Advances and lags -- Increasing speed, lagging safety -- Improving the chances of survival: Mortality and health care -- Growing harvests from the sea: Fishing, sealing and whaling.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Changes in maritime labour: Institutional, technological and spatial contexts -- Chapter 2: The human element in power-driven merchant ship propulsion since 1850: The British case -- Chapter 3: Technological change, institutions, and maritime labour: International reforms and their reception in Sweden and Finland, c.1850-1939 -- Chapter 4: Changes in maritime labour in Greece during the transition from sail to steam, c. 1850-1917 -- Chapter 5: Seamen in the city. Origins, residence and standard of living of Le Havre seamen from c. 1800 to the First Wold War -- Chapter 6: Reading shipboard space: the plans of ships serving the Netherlands East Indies, c.1850-1914 -- Part II: Case studies of old maritime jobs -- Chapter 7: Reconfiguring authority at sea: Steamships and their captains in a Danish context, c.1850-1950 -- Chapter 8: Feeding the fleet: Cooks in the Belgian merchant marine, c.1850-1930 -- Part III: Case studies of new maritime jobs -- Chapter 9: Elbowing their way: Engineers in the Spanish merchant marine, c.1850-1950 -- Chapter 10: From the captain's tiger to the chief steward. Career patterns of the catering personnel on British passenger liners, 1860–1938 -- Chapter 11: Surfing the waves. The rise and decline of radio operators in the Dutch mercantile marine in the twentieth century -- Chapter 12: Conclusion.

"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"--Provided by publisher

In 'Navigating History: Economy, Society, Knowledge, and Nature' the contributors present new research that touches on the core themes developed in Karel Davids's work. The book reflects Davids's omnivorous character as a scholar. Nevertheless, there are common strands that run throughout the introduction and fourteen chapters gathered here. Major themes include resources of knowledge, cultures of learning, and humans and their natural environment. Together, these fourteen essays provide a fascinating panorama of social, economic, and environmental history of the past millennium. The book seeks to bring back the different levels of geographical scope, fusing the local, the national and the global. Contributors are: Ulbe Bosma, Pepijn Brandon, Jaap Bruijn, Petra van Dam, Victor Enthoven, Sabine Go, Marjolein 't Hart, Raoul De Kerf, Jan Lucassen, Karin Lurvink, Joel Mokyr, Marijn Molema, Bert de Munck, Pál Nyiri, Harm Pieters, Matthias van Rossum, Joost Schokkenbroek, Jeroen Touwen, Wybren Verstegen, and Jan Luiten van Zanden