The disordered police state
Subtitle: German cameralism as science and practice
By: Andre Wakefield.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780226870205
Subjects: Mercantile system -- Germany -- History -- 17th century; Mercantile system -- Germany -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bad cameralists and disordered police states; title: Science and silver for the Kammer; title: The knowledge factory; title: The cameralist and the ironworks; title: Useless sciences, fashionable sciences; title: Conclusion : don't believe everything you read; title: Appendix 1: Silver production in Central Europe; title: Appendix 2: Acquisition history of selected mining books in Göttingen; title: Appendix 3: Friedrich Casimir Medicus's unpublished proposal for a Faculty of state administration at the University of Ingolstadt.