The disordered police state : German cameralism as science and practice

Bad cameralists and disordered police states -- Science and silver for the Kammer -- The knowledge factory -- The cameralist and the ironworks -- Useless sciences, fashionable sciences -- Conclusion : don't believe everything you read -- Appendix 1: Average annual silver production in Central E...

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1. Verfasser: Wakefield, Andre (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago, Ill. [u.a.] : Univ. of Chicago Press, 2009
Schlagworte:Merkantilismus Deutschland (bis 1945) Mercantile system Deutschland Kameralistik Geschichte 1600-1800 Kameralismus Geschichte 1700-1800
Umfang:X, 226 S.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Bad cameralists and disordered police states
  • Science and silver for the Kammer
  • The knowledge factory
  • The cameralist and the ironworks
  • Useless sciences, fashionable sciences
  • Conclusion : don't believe everything you read
  • Appendix 1: Silver production in Central Europe
  • Appendix 2: Acquisition history of selected mining books in Göttingen
  • Appendix 3: Friedrich Casimir Medicus's unpublished proposal for a Faculty of state administration at the University of Ingolstadt.