Cameralism in practice
Subtitle: state administration and economy in early modern Europe
By: edited by Marten Seppel and Keith Tribe
Series: People, markets, goods : economies and societies in history -- volume 10; People, markets, goods: economies and societies in history -- v. 10.
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9781783272280
Subjects: Mercantile system; History
Description: This book discusses the impact of cameralism on the practices of governance, early modern state-building and economy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. It argues that the cameralist conception of state and economy - a form of 'science' of government dedicated to reforming society while promoting economic development, and often associated mainly with Prussia - had significant impact far beyond Germany and Austria. In fact, its influence spread into Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Portugal, Northern Italy and other parts of Europe. In this volume, an international set of experts discusses administrative practices and policies in relation to population, forestry, proto-industry, trade, mining affairs, education, police regulation, and insurance. The book will appeal to early modernists, economic historians and historians of economic thought.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : cameralism in practice  -- Marten Seppel; title: Comparing cameralisms : the case of Sweden and Prussia  -- Lars Magnusson; title: Baltic cameralism?  -- Keith Tribe; title: Cameralism in Russia : Empress Catherine II and population policy  -- Roger Bartlett; title: Cameralist population policy and the problem of serfdom, 1680-1720  -- Marten Seppel; title: Cameralist writing in the mirror of practice : the long development of forestry in Germany  -- Paul Warde; title: Cameralist theoretical writings on manufacturing and administrative practice in the German principalities : conflict and coherence  -- Guillaume Garner; title: Administrative centralisation, police regulations and mining sciences as channels for the dissemination of cameralist ideas in the Iberian world  -- Alexandre Mendes Cunha; title: Balancing the divine with the private : the practices of Hushållning in eighteenth-century Sweden  -- Göran Rydén; title: Johan Ludvig Reventlow's master plan at the Brahetrolleborg estate : cameralism in Denmark in the 1780s and 1790s  -- Ingrid Markussen; title: Maasreguln wider die Unglücksfaelle : cameralism and its influence on the establishment of insurance schemes  -- Frank Oberholzner; title: Decline of cameralism in Germany at the turn of the nineteenth century  -- Hans Frambach; title: Concluding remarks -- Keith Tribe.