Technology in decline
A search for useful concepts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8395116 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony S Travis (corresponding author), Willem J Hornix, Robert Bud (0000-0002-4221-7246), Johan Schot (0000-0002-1943-1228, University of Twente) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-26 |
| Publication date | 1992-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal for the History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0874 • E-ISSN: 1474-001X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007087400045301 |
| OpenAlex | W2169538342 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 13 |
Until late in the nineteenth century, madder was the most popular natural red dye. Holland was the largest and best-known supplier. As early as the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the province of Zeeland and adjoining parts of the provinces of South Holland and Brabant developed into important producers. In the course of the seventeenth century these areas even succeeded in acquiring a monopoly position. Early in the nineteenth century, however, this position came under attack because France had gone over to industrial production methods from around 1800, whereas Holland continued to produce with craft technologies. After 1820, as a result, a period of stagnation and decay set in. The fate of the Dutch madder industry would have been completely sealed if the production capacity of the French factories had been sufficiently large to satisfy the great increase in demand. Consequently, in Holland, after 1845, a process of revival based upon the French manufacturing methods began slowly and hesitatingly. This process started too late and was not persevered with sufficiently to regain lost markets. The Dutch producers remained strongly attached to their own out-dated, craft methods of production
Ancient history · Archaeology · Craft · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Fifteenth · Market economy · Monopoly · Position (finance · Production (economics · Global Trade and Competitiveness · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · History · Sustainable Industrial Ecology
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The potential impact of synthetic animal protein on livestock production
Between broken root and artificial alizarin
The usefulness of evolutionary models for explaining innovation. The case of the Netherlands in the nineteenth century
Reconfiguration, Contestation, and Decline
The Making and Re-making of a Regional Product
Technology's storytellers
Technical change and economic theory
Inside the Black Box
The Structure of Sociotechnical Engineering — A Review of the New Sociology of Technology
Two Ultracentrifuges
The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts
Constructive Technology Assessment and Technology Dynamics
The Origins of the Turbojet Revolution
Les plantes tinctoriales dans l'économie du Vaucluse au XIXe siècle
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2022 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |