Research Output per year
Research Output per year
Personal profile
Personal information
Karel Davids is Full Professor Emeritus of Economic and Social History in the Faculty of Humanities and the School of Business and Economics since March 1, 1994.
Email: c.a.davids@vu.nl
Telephone: + 31 20 598 6354
Citations and h-index: https://scholar.google.nl/scholar?hl=nl&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=karel+davids&btnG=
Research
Global history; maritime history; history of technology, history of relations between humans and animals, c. 1500 - present.
Current projects
. De Eckhardts. Een innovatieve familie in Nederland en Engeland in de 18de en 19de eeuw
. Collective memories of Hollandia, Nieuw-Guinea
. Losing knowledge during industrial revolutions
Teaching
Ancillary activities
No ancillary activities
Ancillary activities are updated daily
Fingerprint
Dive into the research topics where C.A. Davids is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Network
Recent external collaboration on country level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots.
Research Output
-
Cities, long-distance corporations and open air sciences: Antwerp, Amsterdam and Leiden in the early modern period
Davids, K., 2020, Knowledge and the early modern city: A history of entanglements. De Munck, B. & Romano, A. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 126-148 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review
-
Global Ocean of Knowledge, 1660-1860: Globalization and Maritime Knowledge in the Atlantic World
Davids, K., 28 May 2020, London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 344 p.Research output: Book / Report › Book › Academic › peer-review
-
Rethinking Stevin, Stevin rethinking: Constructions of a Dutch polymath
Davids, K. (ed.), Dijksterhuis, F. J. (ed.), Vermij, R. (ed.) & Stamhuis, I. (ed.), 20 Oct 2020, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 274 p.Research output: Book / Report › Book › Academic › peer-review
-
Review of Jaime-Chaim Shulman, A Tale of Three Thirsty Cities: The Innovative Water Systems of Toledo, London and Paris in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century
Davids, K., 31 Jul 2020, In : Technology and Culture. 61, 3, p. 953-955 2 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review › Academic › peer-review
-
Review of Maarten Prak en Patrick Wallis (eds.), Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe
Davids, K., 15 Jul 2020, In : Economic History Review. 73, 3, p. 873 874 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review › Academic › peer-review
Activities
-
Measuring friends. On the exchange of maritime knowledge between scholars from Denmark and the Netherlands, c.1790-1900
C.A. Davids (Speaker)
23 May 2019Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
-
Zeevaartonderwijs in Nederland van de zestiende tot de twintigste eeuw. Een stuk in vijf bedrijven.
C.A. Davids (Speaker)
26 May 2018 → …Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Professional
-
Vitruvius and mills in the Low Countries
C.A. Davids (Speaker)
5 Jul 2018Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
-
‘Cities, long-distance corporations and open air sciences: Antwerp, Amsterdam and Leiden in the early modern period’,
C.A. Davids (Speaker)
25 May 2017Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
-
Ph.D. examination
C.A. Davids (Examiner)
9 Jun 2017Activity: PhD thesis Examination › PhD thesis examination
Prizes
-
-
Elected as Member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Davids, C.A. (Recipient), 2003
Prize › Academic
-
-
Fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS)
Davids, C.A. (Recipient), 2013
Prize › Academic
-
Fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS)
Davids, C.A. (Recipient), 1992
Prize › Academic