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Cameralism in practice : state administration and economy in early modern Europe /

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 socie...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Seppel, Marten, 1979- (Editor), Tribe, Keith (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : Boydell Press, 2017.
Series:People, markets, goods ; v. 10.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontcover
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: Cameralism in Practice
  • 1. Comparing Cameralisms: The Case of Sweden and Prussia
  • 2. Baltic Cameralism?
  • 3. Cameralism in Russia: Empress Catherine II and Population Policy
  • 4. Cameralist Population Policy and the Problem of Serfdom, 1680-1720
  • 5. Cameralist Writing in the Mirror of Practice: The Long Development of Forestry in Germany
  • 6. Cameralist Theoretical Writings on Manufacturing and Administrative Practice in the German Principalities: Conflict and Coherence
  • 7. Administrative Centralisation, Police Regulations and Mining Sciences as Channels for the Dissemination of Cameralist Ideas in the Iberian World
  • 8. Balancing the Divine with the Private: The Practices of Hushållning in Eighteenth-Century Sweden
  • 9. Johan Ludvig Reventlow's Master Plan at the Brahetrolleborg Estate: Cameralism in Denmark in the 1780s and 1790s
  • 10. Maasreguln wider die Unglücksfaelle: Cameralism and its Influence on the Establishment of Insurance Schemes
  • 11. The Decline of Cameralism in Germany at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
  • 12. Concluding Remarks
  • Bibliography
  • Index.