Maarten Prak
Biographic Data
| ID | 259324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maarten Prak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maarten |
| FAMILY NAME | Prak |
| SIGNATURE | PRAK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge Urban History of Europe
Volume II charts European urbanism between 700–1850, the millennium during which Europe became the world's most urbanised region. Featuring thirty-six chapters from leading scholars working on all the major linguistic areas of Europe, the volume offers a state-of-the-art survey that explores and explains this transformation, how similar or different such processes were across Europe, and how far it is possible to discern traits that characterise …
The Cambridge Urban History of Europe
Volume I offers a broad perspective on urban culture in the ancient European world. It begins with chronological overviews which paint in broad brushstrokes a picture that serves as a frame for the thematic chapters in the rest of the volume. Positioning ancient Europe within its wider context, it touches on Asia and Africa as regions that informed and were later influenced by urban development in Europe, with particular emphasis on the Mediterra…
Wim Blockmans, The Voice of the People. Political Participation before the Revolutions
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Een inclusieve geschiedenis van de Gouden Eeuw
The contribution frames Marjolein ’t Hart’s latest book in the context of her earlier work, which has fundamentally altered our understanding of the Dutch Golden Age through a revision of the effectiveness of the federal state. This is followed by a critical reflection on her latest work, praising its inclusiveness, but casting doubt on the claim that prosperity in the West of the Dutch Republic came at the expense of the populations living in th…
State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age, by Arthur der Weduwen
Geschiedenis zonder bewegend beeld – en toch op televisie
Historicus Maarten Prak reflecteert in dit essay op zijn eigen bijdrage aan een episode van Het verhaal van Nederland. Hij verbindt dit aan de doelstellingen van deze serie uit 2022 en aan de opzet en receptie van eerdere televisiereeksen over Nederlandse geschiedenis waaraan hij heeft deelgenomen
Pioneers of Capitalism – A Response
The aim of Pioneers of Capitalism was to provide a synthesis of the research that has been done over the past 25 years by the Utrecht social and economic history group, in particular, and by scholars in this field more generally. The framework was the capitalism debate that has received much attention recently. What does the Dutch case tell us about capitalism as an economic and socio-political system
Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000–1800
Jan Blanc (red.), Dutch Golden Age(s). The Shaping of a Cultural Community. Gouden Eeuw: New Perspectives on Dutch Seventeenth-Century Art 1
Citizenship among the historians
Around the time of the establishment of Citizenship Studies, historians had a straightforward picture of what it was, and how it developed. Citizenship had been invented in Ancient Greece, where philosophers like Aristotle had outlined its main features, which remained basically unchanged until the twentieth century. Citizenship was a male prerogative, closely related to political participation and for a long time only available to Europeans. Onl…
Citizens without Nations – a Clarification
My book Citizens without Nations might be read as a triple provocation, as it challenges three received wisdoms of historical textbooks. The first, and perhaps most fundamental, is the idea that the grand narratives of the past have to be the histories of nations and their states
Harnessing the Market in Premodern Europe
Citizens without Nations: A Response
In Citizens without Nations , I argued that national histories have overlooked a large and significant range of citizenship practices that can be found in towns and cities across the pre-modern world. These practices related to local politics (elections, consultations), to economic activities (guilds), to social policies (poor relief), and to military defence (civic militias). This rejoinder addresses three issues raised by critics Jack Goldstone…
Het arme Roomse leven. Geschiedenis van de katholieke caritas in de stad Utrecht, by Ton H.M. van Schaik and Karin Strengers-Olde Kalter
Citizens without Nations: Urban Citizenship in Europe and the World, c.1000–1789
Citizenship is at the heart of our contemporary world but it is a particular vision of national citizenship forged in the French Revolution. In Citizens without Nations, Maarten Prak recovers the much longer tradition of urban citizenship across the medieval and early modern world. Ranging from Europe and the American colonies to China and the Middle East, he reveals how the role of 'ordinary people' in urban politics has been systematically unde…
Craftsmen and Guilds in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
Craftsmen and Guilds in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods. Eva Jullien and Michel Pauly, eds. Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 235. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. 316 pp. €54. - Volume 71 Issue 1
Guilds in the transition to modernity: The cases of Germany, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands
One important aspect of the transition to modernity is the survival of elements of the Old Regime beyond the French Revolution. It has been claimed that this can explain why in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries some Western countries adopted national corporatist structures while others transformed into liberal market economies. One of those elements is the persistence or absence of guild traditions. This is usually analyzed in a n…
A Culture of Growth. The Origins of the Modern Economy
Throughout his long and distinguished career, Mokyr has been fascinated by the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution launched an unprecedented fast-forward movement in the welfare of mankind, a shift from “Smithian” to “Schumpeterian” growth. In influential and widely read previous books, Mokyr identified technology as the key element in that shift; now he is seeking to uncover the cultural roots of the new technology. Why, he asks in …
Citizens, Soldiers and Civic Militias in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
One of the world’s best-known works of art of the early modern period has an uncomfortable relationship with current historiography. The subject matter of Rembrandt’s Nightwatch, created between 1640 and 1642, is amateur soldiers — but had these not become obsolete as a result of the Military Revolution? As it is, the figures in the Nightwatch are going through military procedures, closely following Jacob de Gheyn’s soldiers’ manual of 1607, even…
Discovering the Dutch: On Culture and Society of the Netherlands
Corporatism and Social Models in the Low Countries
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Merlijn Hurx, Architect en aannemer: De opkomst van de bouwmarkt in de Nederlanden, 1350-1530
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy in the East and the West
Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy investigates how technological skills and knowledge were reproduced and disseminated in the advanced agrarian societies of China, India, Russia and Europe in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution. The book offers regional surveys of Europe, China and India, as well as comparative studies of building, porcelain manufacturing, instrument making, printing, and shipbuilding. The authors engage wi…
Working on Labor: Essays in Honor of Jan Lucassen
David STASAVAGE. States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities
David Stasavage's book, published in the prestigious Princeton series edited by Joel Mokyr, was recommended to me more often than usually happens. I have also seen it quoted in various papers more quickly and regularly than one usually sees with a recently published book. What made this book such an instant success? One contributing factor must be the elegance of its mere 165 pages of text. This is a neatly constructed work, with a very transpare…
Burghers into citizens: Urban and national citizenship in the Netherlands during the revolutionary era (c. 1800)
Mega-structures of the Middle Ages: The construction of religious buildings in Europe and Asia, c. 1000–1500
How did medieval builders manage to construct some of the tallest structures in the world without access to modern engineering theories? Construction drawings were limited to details and, with only a handful exceptions, manuals for builders only appeared in the late fifteenth century. By implication, the relevant knowledge had to be transferred on a personal basis. Its underlying principles must therefore have been reasonably simple. This article…
Citizens, Soldiers and Civic Militias in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
One of the world’s best-known works of art of the early modern period has an uncomfortable relationship with current historiography. The subject matter of Rembrandt’s Nightwatch, created between 1640 and 1642, is amateur soldiers — but had these not become obsolete as a result of the Military Revolution? As it is, the figures in the Nightwatch are going through military procedures, closely following Jacob de Gheyn’s soldiers’ manual of 1607, even…
Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy in the East and the West
Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy investigates how technological skills and knowledge were reproduced and disseminated in the advanced agrarian societies of China, India, Russia and Europe in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution. The book offers regional surveys of Europe, China and India, as well as comparative studies of building, porcelain manufacturing, instrument making, printing, and shipbuilding. The authors engage wi…
Identité Urbaine, Identités Sociales Les bourgeois de Bois-le-Duc au XVIIIesiècle
L'idée que la vie était plus intime avant la révolution industrielle qu'à l'époque moderne est l'un des clichés du XIXesiècle qui a survécu jusqu'à nos jours. C'est comme un commentaire sur l'anonymat des relations sociales dans la société post-capitaliste (ou post-communiste) de la fin du XXesiècle, qu'il faudrait interpréter ce cliché plus que comme une représentation exacte du passé. Des travaux tels que ceux d'Eugen Weber(Peasants into French…
Citizen radicalism and democracy in the Dutch Republic: The Patriot movement of the 1780s
Citizen radicalism and democracy in the Dutch Republic: The Patriot movement of the 1780s
Colloquim on Popular Politics in the Netherlands, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
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Le droit de bourgeoisie dans l'Europe moderne: Groupe de travail international. Paris, 7-8-9 octobre 1993
Comment penser aujourd'hui la nature de droits liés à une appartenance locale ? Dans notre expérience quotidienne comme dans notre pratique d'historien(ne), les droits, prérogatives et privilèges, sont liés à des individus et à des groupes sociaux, à des personnes physiques ou fictives, non à des lieux, non à des pratiques sociales liées à des lieux. Et pourtant, durant l'Ancien Régime, les villes d'Europe occidentale ont fait vivre le privilège …
Identité Urbaine, Identités Sociales Les bourgeois de Bois-le-Duc au XVIIIesiècle
L'idée que la vie était plus intime avant la révolution industrielle qu'à l'époque moderne est l'un des clichés du XIXesiècle qui a survécu jusqu'à nos jours. C'est comme un commentaire sur l'anonymat des relations sociales dans la société post-capitaliste (ou post-communiste) de la fin du XXesiècle, qu'il faudrait interpréter ce cliché plus que comme une représentation exacte du passé. Des travaux tels que ceux d'Eugen Weber(Peasants into French…
Cities, Bourgeoisies, and States
The bourgeoisie is one of those historical phenomena that seems to be omnipresent in crucial developments of the European past, and at the same time eludes serious analysis by historians and other social scientists.1 As one of them summarized the problem three decades ago: ‘The trouble with the middle class is that it is always rising ‘. Even though the bourgeoisie ‘s destiny seems obviously enough the age of modernity, and its origins were surel…
Modernisation, the State, and Society
Burghers into citizens: Urban and national citizenship in the Netherlands during the revolutionary era (c. 1800)
Popular Politics Before the Advent of Liberal Democracy
Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age
Dutch society has enjoyed a reputation, or notoriety, for permissiveness from the sixteenth century to present times. The Dutch Republic in the Golden Age was the only society that tolerated religious dissenters of all persuasions in early modern Europe, despite being committed to a strictly Calvinist public Church. Professors R. Po-chia Hsia and Henk van Nierop have brought together a group of leading historians from the US, the UK and the Nethe…
Peasants, Citizens and Politics in Pre-Democratic Europe
Peasants, Citizens and Politics in Pre-Democratic Europe
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Early Modern Capitalism: Economic and Social Change in Europe 1400-1800
The Republican Alternative: The Netherlands and Switzerland Compared
The Netherlands and Switzerland are among the world's most economically successful societies. Their inhabitants enjoy high standards of living and express great satisfaction with their lives according to surveys. This despite serious natural handicaps, such as a lack of raw materials and an abundance of water and rock respectively. The foundation for their prosperity was laid in the early modern period, between roughly 1500 and 1800, when, as fed…
Preface: S.R. Epstein (1960–2007) and the Guilds
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Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, De draad in eigen handen: Vrouwen en loonarbeid in de Nederlandse textielnijverheid, 1581-1810. Vrouwen en werk in de vroegmoderne tijd
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Arnd Kluge. Die Zünfte. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007, 522 p
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Mega-structures of the Middle Ages: The construction of religious buildings in Europe and Asia, c. 1000–1500
How did medieval builders manage to construct some of the tallest structures in the world without access to modern engineering theories? Construction drawings were limited to details and, with only a handful exceptions, manuals for builders only appeared in the late fifteenth century. By implication, the relevant knowledge had to be transferred on a personal basis. Its underlying principles must therefore have been reasonably simple. This article…
Working on Labor: Essays in Honor of Jan Lucassen
David STASAVAGE. States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities
David Stasavage's book, published in the prestigious Princeton series edited by Joel Mokyr, was recommended to me more often than usually happens. I have also seen it quoted in various papers more quickly and regularly than one usually sees with a recently published book. What made this book such an instant success? One contributing factor must be the elegance of its mere 165 pages of text. This is a neatly constructed work, with a very transpare…
Merlijn Hurx, Architect en aannemer: De opkomst van de bouwmarkt in de Nederlanden, 1350-1530
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy in the East and the West
Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy investigates how technological skills and knowledge were reproduced and disseminated in the advanced agrarian societies of China, India, Russia and Europe in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution. The book offers regional surveys of Europe, China and India, as well as comparative studies of building, porcelain manufacturing, instrument making, printing, and shipbuilding. The authors engage wi…
Discovering the Dutch: On Culture and Society of the Netherlands
Corporatism and Social Models in the Low Countries
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Citizens, Soldiers and Civic Militias in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
One of the world’s best-known works of art of the early modern period has an uncomfortable relationship with current historiography. The subject matter of Rembrandt’s Nightwatch, created between 1640 and 1642, is amateur soldiers — but had these not become obsolete as a result of the Military Revolution? As it is, the figures in the Nightwatch are going through military procedures, closely following Jacob de Gheyn’s soldiers’ manual of 1607, even…
A Culture of Growth. The Origins of the Modern Economy
Throughout his long and distinguished career, Mokyr has been fascinated by the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution launched an unprecedented fast-forward movement in the welfare of mankind, a shift from “Smithian” to “Schumpeterian” growth. In influential and widely read previous books, Mokyr identified technology as the key element in that shift; now he is seeking to uncover the cultural roots of the new technology. Why, he asks in …
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