GEHN Conference 4

Useful Knowledge: Leiden, 16-18 September 2004

Papers

Roy Bin Wong, "Useful knowledge and economic change: what are we explaining?" (pdf)

Harriet Zurndorfer, "Science without modernization: China's first encounter with useful and reliable knowledge from Europe" (pdf)

Debin Ma, "Law, commerce and knowledge in 18-20th century China: an institutional perspective on the "great divergence" (pdf)

Prasannan Parthasarathi, "Useful Knowledge in the Indian Subcontinent" (pdf)

William Gervase Clarence Smith, "Science and technology in early modern Islam, c.1450-c.1850" (pdf)

Maxine Berg, "Macartney's things. Were they useful? Knowledge and the trade to China in the 18th century" (pdf)

Karel Davids, "Water control and useful knowledge: river management and the evolution of knowledge in China, Northern Italy and the Netherlands" (pdf)

Ian Inkster, "Three pictures and an argument - A story of useful and reliable knowledge circa 1600-1912" (pdf)

Larry Epstein, "The Generation and Transmission of Technical Knowledge in Pre-modern Europe, C.1200-c.1800 (pdf)

Margaret Jacob, "How tthink about culture in relation to economic development" (pdf)

Bob Allen, "Science, economics, and the British Industrial Revolution"

Jan Luiten van Zanden, "Common workmen, philosophers and the birth of the European knowledge economy: about the price and the production of useful knowledge in Europe, 1350-1800"

Floris Cohen, "The coming-into-being of our modern world: What science and technology had to do with it"