Koot gets $164K grant for summer seminar

DARTMOUTH – Gerard M. Koot, emeritus chancellor professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, has received $164,550 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to direct a summer seminar focused on the development of an economy in northwestern Europe.
The seminar, entitled “The Dutch Republic and Britain: The Making of Modern Society and a World Economy,” will allow 16 teachers to spend five weeks in the summer of 2015 in London, the Netherlands and Belgium to study historical literature at the Institute for Historical Research at the University of London and other international museums and historical sites.
The seminar will investigate how a region of northwestern Europe, centered on the North Sea, was the first region in the world to develop an economy that produced long-term economic growth able to provide an adequate, rising standard of living.
This is Koot’s 17th summer seminar grant from the NEH. After holding the first two five-week seminars at UMass Dartmouth, Koot moved them to the campus of the University of Nottingham in the English Midlands in order to allow participants to visit the historical sites and museum exhibits of early industrialization.
For more information, visit www1.umassd.edu/euro/ and www1.umassd.edu/ir/. •

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