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Author:

Wakefield, Andre

Title:

The disordered police state : German cameralism as science and practice / Andre Wakefield.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

x, 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Mercantile system--Germany--History--17th century.
Mercantile system--Germany--History--18th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-218) and index.

Contents:

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 Europe, 1545-1800 -- Appendix 2: Acquisition history of selected mining books in G©œttingen -- Appendix 3: Friedrich Casimir Medicus's unpublished proposal for a Faculty of state administration at the University of Ingolstadt.

ISBN:

0226870200 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226870205 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)244567156

LCCN:

2008036715

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)