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.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2012

ISBN

9781137265258

Topic

Economics

Subtopic

Economic Policy

Index

Economics

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Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1 Political Economy, Patriotism and the Rise of Societies
2 Agrarian Patriotism and the Landed Interest: The Scottish ‘Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture’, 1723–1746 26
3 A Kingdom of Cosmopolitan Improvers: The Dublin Society, 1731–1798 52
4 The Society of Brittany and the Irish Economic Model: International Competition and the Politics of Provincial Development
5 The Georgofili of Florence, 1753–1783: From ‘perfect anarchy’ to Royal Academy
6 Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism and Political Economy in the Accademia dei pugni in Austrian Lombardy, 1760–1780 130
7 Paternalism and Agricultural Reform: The Economic Society of Bern in the Eighteenth Century
8 Economic Societies in Germany, 1760–1820: Organisation, Social Structures and Fields of Activities
9 Patriotic Societies and Royal Imperial Reforms in Denmark, 1761–1814 212
10 Patriotism, Agronomy and the Peasant Question: The Free Economic Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia
11 The Haarlem 1771 Prize Essay on the Restoration of Dutch Trade and the Economic Branch of the Holland Society of Sciences
12 Between Mainstay and Internal Colony: Zeeland and the Decline of the Dutch Republic, 1750–1800 285
13 Between ‘Public’ and ‘Private Economy’: The Finnish Economic Society and the Decline of Economic Patriotism, 1797–1833 313
14 The American Agricultural Societies and the Making of the New Republic, 1785–1830 339
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