Political reason and the language of change :  reform and improvement in early modern Europe / 
edited by Adriana Luna-Fabritius, Ere Nokkala, Marten Seppel and Keith Tribe. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - Political economies of capitalism, 1600-1850 .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781003206675 1003206670 9781000644135 1000644138 9781000644142 1000644146 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.4324/9781003206675  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Enlightenment--Europe.<br/>Social problems--Europe.<br/>Civic improvement--Europe.<br/>HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century<br/>HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia<br/>HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Europe--Social conditions--18th century.<br/>Europe--Politics and government--18th century.<br/>Europe--Intellectual life--18th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>D286 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>940.2/53