Political reason and the language of change : reform and improvement in early modern Europe /: reform and improvement in early modern Europe. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Adriana Luna-Fabritius, Ere Nokkala, Marten Seppel and Keith Tribe.
• Editors: Luna-Fabritius, Adriana; Nokkala, Ere, 1978-; Seppel, Marten, 1979-; Tribe, Keith
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Reform and Improvement in Early Modern Europe Adriana Luna-Fabritius, Ere Nokkala, Marten Seppel, and Keith Tribe Part 1: Rethinking Key Concepts of Political Economy: Reform and Improvement 2. Reform: Elements for a Conceptual History Keith Tribe 3. The Evolution of the Concept Verbesserung and the Anonymous German Discourse of Improvement Marten Seppel 4. "Changes to preserve everything the way it always was": the Idea of Reform and the Slow Disintegration of the Old Regime Alexandre Mendes-Cunha 5. "Changes are harmful to the state": The Concept of Reform in Russian Political Thought, 1700-1790 Sergey Polskoy 6. Reform and Utopia in Early-Modern Italian Political Economy: Historicising a Tension Adriana Luna-Fabritius Part 2: Agents and Ideas of Improvement and Reform in Context 7. Projects for the Improvement of Constitutional Order: Late Cameralists as Advocates of Political Change Ere Nokkala 8. Joseph von Sonnenfels and the Political Codex (1763-1817) Ivo Cerman 9. The Translation, Adaptation and Mediation of Cameralist Texts in Austrian-Habsburg Lombardy’s "Age of Reform" Alexandra Ortolja-Baird 10. How Undiplomatic Memoirs Shaped Enlightenment Reform: Melchor Rafael Macanaz’s Memorias & Contexts of Change in Bourbon Spain Edward Jones-Corredera 11. Making and Trading Metals: A Narrative of Swedish Improvement Måns Jansson and Göran Rydén 12. National Economics in Sweden: Reform and the Political Economy of Industrial Progress 1800-1850 Lars Magnusson 13. Epilogue Kari Saastamoinen
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 940.253; Enlightenment -- Europe; Social problems -- Europe; Civic improvement -- Europe; Europe -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Europe -- Politics and government -- 18th century; Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000644142; 9781000644135; 9781003206675
• Related ISBNs: 9781032073897
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
• Access Rights: Open access.
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.