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.

"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.

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