Karel Davids

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).

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). See less