The World and The Netherlands: A Global History from a Dutch Perspective - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Marjolein 't Hart is Head of the History Research Department of the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands in The Hague, Netherlands and Professor of the History of State Formation in Global Perspective at VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands. She is the author The Dutch Wars of Independence (2014) and the editor of Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe (2008) and A Financial History of the Netherlands 1550-1990 (2010).

Manon van der Heijden is Academic Director of the Institute of History and Professor of Comparative Urban History at Leiden University, Netherlands. She is the author of Women and Crime in Early Modern Holland (2016) and the editor of Women's Criminality in Europe, 1600-1914 (2020) and The Uses of Justice in Comparative Perspective (2019).

Karel Davids is Full Professor Emeritus of Economic and Social History at VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is the author of Global Ocean of Knowledge, 1660-1860 (Bloomsbury, 2020), Religion, Technology and the Great and Little Divergences: China and Europe Compared, c. 700 - 1800 (2013) and The Rise and Decline of Dutch Technological Leadership (2008).

Vivien Collingwood is a freelance Dutch-to-English translator and editor based in the Netherlands. She has an MA in History from Cambridge University, UK and a D.Phil. in International Relations from the University of Oxford, UK. She specialises in non-fiction translations in the fields of history, political science, development studies, political economy, sociology and education.

Lex Heerma van Voss is research fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam and Professor Emeritus of the History of Social Security at Utrecht University.