Jan De Vries (historian)

Jan De Vries (born November 14, 1943 in the Netherlands ) is an American economic historian . He is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley .

De Vries has lived in the United States since his youth and is a US citizen. He received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University and his PhD from Yale University in 1970. He has been a professor of history since 1977 and economics at Berkeley since 1982.

He is particularly concerned with the economic history of the Netherlands in the early modern period, about which he wrote a standard work with Ad van der Woude . He also dealt with urbanization , climate and environmental history , demography , the history of the labor market and the art market in the early modern period.

In 2000 he received the AH Heineken Prize for History . From 1991 to 1993 he was President of the Economic History Association and he is editor of the Journal of Economic History .

He is a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences , the British Academy , a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Philosophical Society and the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde.

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Books

• The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Demand and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present, Cambridge University Press 2008 (received the Georgy Ranki Prize)
• The Dutch Rural Economy in the Golden Age, 1500-1700, Yale University Press, 1974
• The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, 1600-1750, Cambridge University Press, 1976
• Barges and Capitalism: Passenger Transportation in the Dutch Economy, 1632-1839, AAG Bijdragen no. 21; Wageningen, 1978, Amsterdam University Press, 2006
• European Urbanization, 1500-1800, London, Methuen, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1984
• with AM van der Woude: The First Modern Economy. Success, Failure, and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy from 1500 to 1815, Cambridge University Press, 1997 (received the Georgy Ranki Prize)
• Editor with A. van der Woude, Akira Hayami: Urbanization in History, Oxford University Press 1990
• Editor with David Freedberg : Art in History, History in Art: Studies in Seventeenth Century Dutch Culture, University of Chicago Press, 1991

Articles and book contributions

• How Did Pre-Industrial Labor Markets Function ?, in George Grantham, Mary MacKinnen, eds., The Evolution of Labor Markets (London, Routledge, 1994), pp. 39-63.
• Population, in: Thomas A. Brady, Heiko A. Oberman, James Tracy, eds., Handbook of European History, 1400-1600, Vol. 1, (Leiden, EJ Brill, 1994), pp. 1-50.
• The Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution, Journal of Economic History 54 (1994), pp. 249-270.
• Great Expectations: History and the Social Sciences, Early Modern History and the Social Sciences, Review 22 (1999), pp. 121-149.
• Dutch Economic Growth in Comparative Historical Perspective, 1500-2000, De Economist, 148 (2000), pp. 443-467.
• Economic Growth before and after the Industrial Revolution: a modest proposal, in Maarten Prak, ed., Early Modern Capitalism (London, Routledge Publishers, 2000), pp. 177-94
• Connecting Europe and Asia. A Quantitative Analysis of the Cape Route Trade, 1497-1795, in: Dennis Flynn, Arturo Giraldo, Richard von Glahn, eds., Global Connections and Monetary History, 1470-1800 (London, Ashgate, 2003), pp. 35-106 .
• The Political Economy of Bread in the Dutch Republic, in: Oscar Gelderblom, ed., The Political Economy of the Dutch Republic (Ashgate Publishers, 2009), pp. 85-114.
• The Economic Crisis of the Seventeenth Century after Fifty Years, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 40 (2009), p. 151-194.
• The Limits of Globalization in the Early Modern World, Economic History Review 63 (2010), pp. 710-733.

Web links

• Page at the University of Berkeley
• Heineken Prize

Individual evidence

1. ^ Book of Members. Retrieved July 23, 2016 . 
2. ^ Member History: Jan de Vries. Retrieved December 30, 2018 (with biographical notes).