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Political reason and the language of change : reform and improvement in early modern Europe / edited by Adriana Luna-Fabritius, Ere Nokkala, Marten Seppel and Keith Tribe.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Political economies of capitalism, 1600-1850
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enlightenment--Europe.
- Enlightenment.
- Social problems--Europe.
- Social problems.
- Civic improvement--Europe.
- Civic improvement.
- Europe--Social conditions--18th century.
- Europe.
- Europe--Politics and government--18th century.
- Europe--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Political reason and the language of change
- ISBN:
- 9781000644135
- 1000644138
- 9781003206675
- 1003206670
- Publisher Number:
- 40031366521
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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