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Cameralism in practice
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ISBN: 9781783272280 1783272287 9781787440777 178744077X Year: 2017 Publisher: Suffolk Boydell & Brewer

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This book discusses the impact of cameralism on the practices of governance, early modern state-building and economy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. It argues that the cameralist conception of state and economy - a form of 'science' of government dedicated to reforming society while promoting economic development, and often associated mainly with Prussia - had significant impact far beyond Germany and Austria. In fact, its influence spread into Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Portugal, Northern Italy and other parts of Europe. In this volume, an international set of experts discusses administrative practices and policies in relation to population, forestry, proto-industry, trade, mining affairs, education, police regulation, and insurance. The book will appeal to early modernists, economic historians and historians of economic thought. MARTEN SEPPEL is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge. KEITH TRIBE has a PhD from the University of Cambridge and taught at the University of Keele (UK) from 1976 to 2002, retiring as Reader in Economics. He is now working as a highly regarded professional translator and independent scholar. Forthcoming work includes a new translation of Max Weber, Economy and Society Part One (Harvard University Press, 2018). His publications include Strategies of Economic Order (CUP, 1995/2007); The Economy of the Word. Language, History, and Economics (OUP, 2015); and (edited with Pat Hudson) The Contradictions of Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Agenda, 2016). Contributors: ROGER BARTLETT, ALEXANDRE MENDES CUNHA, HANS FRAMBACH, GUILLAUME GARNER, LARS MAGNUSSON, INGRID MARKUSSEN, FRANK OBERHOLZNER, GÖRAN RYDÉN, MARTEN SEPPEL, KEITH TRIBE, PAUL WARDE

A Culture of Credit
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ISBN: 0674041631 9780674041639 0674023404 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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In the growing and dynamic economy of nineteenth-century America, businesses sold vast quantities of goods to one another, mostly on credit. This book explains how business people solved the problem of whom to trust--how they determined who was deserving of credit, and for how much. Rowena Olegario traces the way resistance, mutual suspicion, skepticism, and legal challenges were overcome in the relentless quest to make information on business borrowers more accurate and available.


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The early mercantilists: Thomas Mun (1571-1641), Edward Misselden (1608-1634), Gerard de Malynes (1586-1623)
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ISBN: 1852784660 Year: 1991 Volume: 4 Publisher: Aldershot Elgar


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The later mercantilists: Josiah Child (1603-1699) and John Locke (1632-1704)
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ISBN: 1852784679 Year: 1991 Volume: 5 Publisher: Aldershot Elgar


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Conflict and control in the world economy : contemporary economic realism and neo-mercantilism
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ISBN: 0745000444 9780745000442 Year: 1986 Publisher: Brighton: Harvester press,

The modern world-system II: mercantilism and the consolidation of the European world-economy, 1600-1750
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ISBN: 0127859241 0127859233 Year: 1980 Volume: 2 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Academic Press

Ostmitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert.
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ISBN: 3486702122 3486702068 3486557572 3486557580 3486581694 9783486702064 Year: 2011 Publisher: München De Gruyter

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Joachim von Puttkamer führt die Geschichte(n) Ungarns, Polens, Tschechiens und der Slowakei zusammen und überwindet so die nationalen Perspektiven. Der Band gibt eine kompakte Einführung in die Grundlinien der ostmitteleuropäischen Geschichte seit dem späten 18. Jahrhundert. In der bewährten Dreiteilung der Reihe diskutiert von Puttkamer zentrale Forschungsprobleme von Staat und Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Nation und Erinnerungskultur in einer hochkomplexen Region und bietet Einblicke in aktuelle historische Kontroversen unserer östlichen Nachbarn. Die vergleichende Zusammenschau der polnischen, tschechischen, slowakischen und ungarischen Geschichte erschließt Konvergenzen und Divergenzen der ostmitteleuropäischen Adelsgesellschaften in ihrer Entwicklung zu den Demokratien der Gegenwart. "Eine rundum gelungene, auf die Grundstrukturen einer komplexen Geschichtsregion konzentrierte Darstellung." Prof. Dr. Eduard Mühle, Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau


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The engine of enterprise
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ISBN: 0674915488 9780674915480 9780674051140 0674051149 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Tracing credit from colonial times to the present and highlighting its productive role in building national prosperity, Rowena Olegario probes questions that have divided Americans: Who should have access to credit? How should creditors assess creditworthiness? How can borrowers and lenders accommodate to the risks of a credit-dependent economy?


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Huizhou: Local Identity and Mercantile Lineage Culture in Ming China
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ISBN: 0520385225 0520385217 9780520385221 9780520385214 Year: 2022 Publisher: University of California Press

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"Huizhou studies the construction of local identity through kinship in Huizhou prefecture, the most prominent merchant stronghold of Ming China. Making use of an array of untapped genealogies and other sources, Qitao Guo explores how developments in the sociocultural, religious, and gender realms in the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries intertwined to shape Huizhou identity as a land of "prominent lineages." This gentrified self-image both sheltered and guided the development of mercantile lineages, which were further bolstered by the gender regime and the local religious order. As Guo demonstrates, the discrepancy between representation and practice helps explain Huizhou's triumphs. The more active the economy became, the more those central to its commercialization embraced conservative sociocultural norms. Home lineages embraced neo-Confucian orthodoxy even as they provided the financial and logistical support to assure the success of Huizhou merchants. The end result was not "capitalism" but gentrified mercantile lineage culture with Chinese-or Huizhou-characteristics"-- Provided by publisher.

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