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

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The rise of economic societies in the eighteenth century

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edited by Koen Stapelbroek and Jani Marjanen

patriotic reform in Europe and North America

"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 publisherThis 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., One of the most prominent, visible throughout a wide variety of contemporary sources, and geographically widespread phenomena in the eighteenth century was the rise of societies aimed at improving the economic basis of European nations. The Rise of Economic Societies in the Eighteenth Century is the first book to explore 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, highlighting also the variety of local political roles and practical activities among the most prominent societies, ranging from Scotland to Switzerland and Russia to the United States of America

Political Economy, Patriotism and the Rise of Societies; K. Stapelbroek & J. Marjanen -- Agrarian Patriotism and the Landed Interest: The Scottish 'Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture', 1723-1746; B. Bonnyman -- A Kingdom of Cosmopolitan Improvers: The Dublin Society, 1731-1798 72; J. Livesey -- The Society of Brittany and the Irish Economic Model: International Competition and the Politics of Provincial Development; J. Shovlin -- The Georgofili of Florence, 1753-1783: From 'perfect anarchy' to Royal Academy; V. Becagli -- Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and Political Economy in the Accademia dei pugni in Austrian Lombardy, 1760-1780; S. A. Reinert -- Paternalism and Agricultural Reform: The Economic Society of Bern in the Eighteenth-Century; R. Wyss & M. Stuber -- Economic Societies in Germany, 1760-1820: Organisation, Social Structures and Fields of Activities; H. E. Bödeker -- Patriotic Societies and Royal Imperial Reforms in Denmark, 1761-1814 279; J. Engelhardt -- Patriotism, Agronomy, and the Peasant Question: The Free Economic Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia; C. Leckey -- The Haarlem 1771 Prize Essay on the Restoration of Dutch Trade and the Economic Branch of the Holland Society of Sciences; K. Stapelbroek -- Between Mainstay and Internal Colony: Zeeland and the Decline of the Dutch Republic, 1750-1800; A. Neele -- Between 'Public' and 'Private Economy': The Finnish Economic Society and the Decline of Economic Patriotism, 1797-1833; J. Marjanen -- The American Agricultural Societies and the Making of the New Republic, 1785-1830; M. Albertone