450 years of leadership. Technological flowering of Holland in the XIV-XVIII centuries. And what followed him

Innovation and progress are an important section of the economic history and technology history. In this book, Karel Davids conducted a deep analysis of the issue of technological leadership on the example of the history of the Dutch Republic, which is considered the first modern economy. Having studied a huge number of European archival materials, printed sources and side literature, Davids offers a wide overview of Dutch technological progress in Europe, from the high Middle Ages to the early New Age, explains the entire process of rise and decline and extends Holland"s case to the evolution of technological leadership as a whole.
The book 450 years of leadership: the technological flowering of Holland in the XIV -XVIII centuries. And what followed him ”will be interesting to everyone who wants to learn more about the development of technologies in the early period of the new history, to trace the connection between technological changes and the economic recovery of the Dutch Republic, and also look at the situation in the Netherlands in the initial period of the new history in a wider perspective