The rise of economic societies in the eighteenth century [electronic resource] : patriotic reform in Europe and North America /
Stapelbroek, K.editor.
Marjanen, J.editor.
This collection of essays explores the emergence of economic societies in the British Isles and their development into a European, American and global reform movement in the eighteenth century. Its fourteen contributions demonstrate the intellectual horizons and international networks of this widespread and influential phenomenon.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Political Economy, Patriotism and the Rise of Societies; 2 Agrarian Patriotism and the Landed Interest: The Scottish 'Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture', 1723-1746; 3 A Kingdom of Cosmopolitan Improvers: The Dublin Society, 1731-1798; 4 The Society of Brittany and the Irish Economic Model: International Competition and the Politics of Provincial Development; 5 The Georgofili of Florence, 1753-1783: From 'perfect anarchy' to Royal Academy
6 Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism and Political Economy in the Accademia dei pugni in Austrian Lombardy, 1760-17807 Paternalism and Agricultural Reform: The Economic Society of Bern in the Eighteenth Century; 8 Economic Societies in Germany, 1760-1820: Organisation, Social Structures and Fields of Activities; 9 Patriotic Societies and Royal Imperial Reforms in Denmark, 1761-1814; 10 Patriotism, Agronomy and the Peasant Question: The Free Economic Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia
11 The Haarlem 1771 Prize Essay on the Restoration of Dutch Trade and the Economic Branch of the Holland Society of Sciences12 Between Mainstay and Internal Colony: Zeeland and the Decline of the Dutch Republic, 1750-1800; 13 Between 'Public' and 'Private Economy': The Finnish Economic Society and the Decline of Economic Patriotism, 1797-1833; 14 The American Agricultural Societies and the Making of the New Republic, 1785-1830; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This collection of essays explores the emergence of economic societies in the British Isles and their development into a European, American and global reform movement in the eighteenth century. Its fourteen contributions demonstrate the intellectual horizons and international networks of this widespread and influential phenomenon.
Economic policy.
Social history.
World history.
Political economy.
History, Modern.
History.
Economic Policy.
Social History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
International Political Economy.
Modern History.
History, general.