The Rise of Economic Societies in the Eighteenth Century: Patriotic Reform in Europe and North America

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Political Economy, Patriotism and the Rise of Societies....Pages 1-25
Agrarian Patriotism and the Landed Interest: The Scottish ‘Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture’, 1723–1746....Pages 26-51
A Kingdom of Cosmopolitan Improvers: The Dublin Society, 1731–1798....Pages 52-72
The Society of Brittany and the Irish Economic Model: International Competition and the Politics of Provincial Development....Pages 73-95
The Georgofili of Florence, 1753–1783: From ‘perfect anarchy’ to Royal Academy....Pages 96-129
Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism and Political Economy in the Accademia dei pugni in Austrian Lombardy, 1760–1780....Pages 130-156
Paternalism and Agricultural Reform: The Economic Society of Bern in the Eighteenth Century....Pages 157-181
Economic Societies in Germany, 1760–1820: Organisation, Social Structures and Fields of Activities....Pages 182-211
Patriotic Societies and Royal Imperial Reforms in Denmark, 1761–1814....Pages 212-231
Patriotism, Agronomy and the Peasant Question: The Free Economic Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia....Pages 232-256
The Haarlem 1771 Prize Essay on the Restoration of Dutch Trade and the Economic Branch of the Holland Society of Sciences....Pages 257-284
Between Mainstay and Internal Colony: Zeeland and the Decline of the Dutch Republic, 1750–1800....Pages 285-312
Between ‘Public’ and ‘Private Economy’: The Finnish Economic Society and the Decline of Economic Patriotism, 1797–1833....Pages 313-338
The American Agricultural Societies and the Making of the New Republic, 1785–1830....Pages 339-369
Back Matter....Pages 370-388