The rise of economic societies in the eighteenth century : 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"-Machine generated contents note: -- 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.Includes bibliographical references and index."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"