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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luna-Fabritius, Adriana, editor.

Series:

Political Economies of Capitalism, 1600-1850

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enlightenment--Europe.

Enlightenment.

Civic improvement.

Social problems.

Europe--Social conditions--18th century.

Europe.

Europe--Politics and government--18th century.

Europe--Intellectual life--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2023]

Summary:

"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, intellectual history, and conceptual history in early modern Europe"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-320667-0

1-003-20667-0

1-000-64413-8

9781003206675

OCLC:

1330202262