Book

Cameralism and the Enlightenment : happiness, governance, and reform in transnational perspective

Nokkala, Ere, 1978- editor, Miller, Nicholas B., editor

Overview

\"Cameralism and the Enlightenment reassesses the relationship between two key phenomena of European history often disconnected from each other. It builds on recent insights from global history, transnational history and Enlightenment studies to reflect on the dynamic interactions of cameralism, an early modern set of practices and discourses of statecraft prominent in central Europe, with the broader political, intellectual and cultural developments of the Enlightenment world. Through contributions from prominent scholars across the field of Enlightenment studies, the volume analyzes eighteenth-century cameralist authors' engagements with commerce, colonialism and natural law. Challenging the caricature of cameralism as a German, land-locked version of mercantilism, the volume reframes its importance for scholars of the Enlightenment broadly conceived. This volume goes beyond the typical focus on Britain and France in studies of political economy, widening perspectives about the dissemination of ideas of governance, happiness and reform to focus on multidirectional exchanges across continental Europe and beyond during the eighteenth century. Emphasizing the practice of theory, it proposes the study of the porosity of ideas in their exchange, transmission and mediation between spaces and discourses as a key dimension of cultural and intellectual history\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: Mercantile system Europe History 18th century. / Enlightenment. / Europe Politics and government History. / Europe Economic policy History.
• ISBN: 9780367360511, 0367360519, 0367360527, 9780367360528

Item info:

1 item available

1 item total in all locations

Holdings :

Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HB91.C26 2020	1	BOOK	BUSINESS