Political reason and the language of change : : reform and improvement in early modern Europe /

Political reason and the language of change : : reform and improvement in early modern Europe / / edited by Adriana Luna-Fabritius [and three others].

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"This collection of essays re-examines ideas of change and movements for change in early modern Europe without presuming that "progressive" change was the outcome of "reforms". This volume is a useful resource for students and scholars interested in Enlightenment studies, in...

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Superior document:Political Economies of Capitalism, 1600-1850
TeilnehmendeR:
Luna-Fabritius, Adriana,
Place / Publishing House:London, England ;, New York, New York : : Routledge,, [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Political Economies of Capitalism, 1600-1850
Physical Description:1 online resource (285 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Reform and improvement in early modern Europe / Adriana Luna-Fabritius, Ere Nokkala, Marten Seppel, Keith Tribe
  • Reform : elements for a conceptual history / Keith Tribe
  • The evolution of the concept Verbesserung and the anonymous German discourse of improvement / Marten Seppel
  • "Changes to preserve everything the way it always was" : the idea of reform and the slow disintegration of the old regime / Alexandre Mendes-Cunha
  • "Changes are harmful to the state" : the concept of reform in Russian political thought, 1700-1790 / Sergey Polskoy
  • Reform and utopia in early-modern Italian political economy : historicising a tension / Adriana Luna-Fabritius
  • Projects for the improvement of constitutional order : late cameralists as advocates of political change / Ere Nokkala
  • Joseph von Sonnenfels and the Political codex (1763-1817) / Ivo Cerman
  • The translation, adaptation and mediation of cameralist texts in Austrian-Habsburg Lombardy's "age of reform" / Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
  • How undiplomatic memoirs shaped Enlightenment reform : Melchor Rafael Macanaz's Memorias & contexts of change in Bourbon Spain / Edward Jones-Corredera
  • Making and trading metals : a narrative of Swedish improvement / Måns Jansson & Göran Rydén
  • National economics in Sweden : reform and the political economy of industrial progress 1800-1850 / Lars Magnusson
  • Epilogue / Kari Saastamoinen.

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