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Joris van den Tol, FRHistS is Assistant Professor of Economic History.

I am an historian of Early Modern Economic and Social History, specializing in the Dutch Republic in a globalized world. My first book, Lobbying in Company (Brill, 2020) uses the Dutch colony in Brazil (1630-1654) as a case study for lobbying. I argue that (ordinary) people made a difference for history. Through lobbying (a combination of petitions, personal relations, and public opinion), individuals were able to influence the decision-making process. Lobbying alliances transcended boundaries of ethnicity, religion, geography, gender, and class.

I am finishing a research project about Dutch merchants trading in the English Atlantic in the seventeenth century. My VENI project studies the role of processing industry between 1600 and 1800.

Together with other people, I have published three monographs about slavery. These study [1] the Dutch Central Bank; [2] the Province of South Holland; and [3] the city of Nijmegen.

Before coming to Radboud, I was a Postdoc at Harvard University and the University of Cambridge. I obtained my PhD at Leiden University in 2018.

I am currently supervising the following PhD candidates:
- Marte Stoffers, who is studying the informal institutions of Early Modern Europe.

• Radboud Group for Historical Demography and Family History