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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.

Consensus en conflict. Waterbeheer in de Nederlanden 1200-1800 is een indrukwekkend boek. De vraagstelling is actueel. Wie gaven het waterbeheer in de Nederlanden vorm ? Klopt het traditionele beeld dat waterbeheer een zaak was samenwerking en streven naar consensus, of was er toch ook vaak sprake van belangenstrijd en conflict ? Het doel van mijn discussiebijdrage is dan ook niet zozeer om kritische noten te kraken maar meer om een verdere gedachtewisseling over bepaalde aspecten van het boek te stimuleren. Dat betreft in het bijzonder het internationale vergelijkende perspectief. Hoewel Consensus en conflict zich concentreert op 'de Nederlanden' (inclusief de Vlaamse kustvlakte), wordt op verschillende punten ook een blik geworpen op gebieden daarbuiten, vooral Frankrijk, Engeland en Noordwest Duitsland.

The Zaanstreek—northwest of Amsterdam, The Netherlands—has been a highly industrialized region for nearly four hundred years. For most of this period, it showed a strong sense of community and a high degree of cooperation between firms, which is usually considered to be typical for an "industrial district." However, between about 1840 and the First World War the character of this industrial district was dramatically transformed. In response to the rapidly growing integration of markets in the national and international economies since the 1840s, the Zaanstreek went through a radical change in energy base, as well as a fundamental shift in industrial structure. This essay addresses the questions of what happened to interfirm cooperation in the Zaanstreek when this fundamental transition in energy base and shift in industrial structure came about and how and to what extent entrepreneurs in the Zaan district between 1840 and 1920 managed to preserve the sense of community and interfirm cooperation that were the hallmarks of this region since the seventeenth century. It shows that the principle of mutuality eventually proved no longer strong enough to keep the actors in these institutions together. Ties between firms within the industrial district were in several respects replaced by, or subordinated to, ties between firms outside the industrial district. What kept interfirm cooperation in the district nevertheless intact for much of the period after 1920 were ties of regional family networks. The essay concludes with a few observations about the relevance to the study of industrial districts in general.