The rise of economic societies in the eighteenth century : patriotic reform in Europe and North America / edited by Koen Stapelbroek and Jani Marjanen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stapelbroek, Koen.

Marjanen, Jani

Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Societies, etc--History--18th century.

Economics.

Economic policy--History--18th century.

Economic policy.

History.

Economics--Societies, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 388 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

"This collection of essays explores the emergence of economic societies in the British Isles and their development into a European, American and global reform movement in the eighteenth century. Its fourteen contributions demonstrate the intellectual horizons and international networks of this widespread and influential phenomenon"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Political Economy, Patriotism and the Rise of Societies/ Koen Stapelbroek and Jai Marjanen

2. Agrarian Patriotism and the Landed Interest: The Scottish 'Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture', 1723-1746 / Brian Bonnyman

3. A Kingdom of Cosmopolitan Improvers: The Dublin Society, 1731-1798 / James Livesey

4. The Society of Brittany and the Irish Economic Model: International Competition and the Politics of Provincial Development / John Shovlin

5. The Georgofili of Florence, 1753-1783: From 'perfect anarchy' to Royal Academy / Vieri Becagli

6. Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and Political Economy in the Accademia dei pugni in Austrian Lombardy, 1760-1780 / Sophus A. Reinert

7. Paternalism and Agricultural Reform: The Economic Society of Bern in the Eighteenth-Century / Regula Wyss and Martin Stuber

8. Economic Societies in Germany, 1760-1820: Organisation, Social Structures and Fields of Activities / Hans E. Bödeker

9. Patriotic Societies and Royal Imperial Reforms in Denmark, 1761-1814 / Juliane Engelhardt

10. Patriotism, Agronomy, and the Peasant Question: The Free Economic Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia / Colum Leckey

11. The Haarlem 1771 Prize Essay on the Restoration of Dutch Trade and the Economic Branch of the Holland Society of Sciences / Koen Stapelbroek

12. Between Mainstay and Internal Colony: Zeeland and the Decline of the Dutch Republic, 1750-1800 / Arno Neele

13. Between 'Public' and 'Private Economy': The Finnish Economic Society and the Decline of Economic Patriotism, 1797-1833 / Jani Marjanen

14. The American Agricultural Societies and the Making of the New Republic, 1785-1830 / Manuela Albertone.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0230354173

OCLC:

796775690

Publisher Number:

99952086383