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The disordered police state : German cameralism as science and practice / Andre Wakefield.
LIBRA HB91 .W35 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wakefield, Andre.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mercantile system--Germany--History--17th century.
- Mercantile system.
- Mercantile system--Germany--History--18th century.
- History.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- x, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Bad cameralists and disordered police states
- Science and silver for the Kammer
- The knowledge factory
- The cameralist and the ironworks
- Useless sciences, fashionable sciences
- Conclusion : don't believe everything you read
- Appendix 1: Average annual silver production in Central Europe, 1545-1800
- Appendix 2: Acquisition history of selected mining books in Göttingen
- Appendix 3: Friedrich Casimir Medicus's unpublished proposal for a Faculty of state administration at the University of Ingolstadt.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-218) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226870205
- 0226870200
- OCLC:
- 244567156
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