The disordered police state : German cameralism as science and practice

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

Author/creator	Wakefield, Andre
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Description	x, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Subject(s)	Mercantile system--Germany --History --17th century. Mercantile system--Germany --History --18th century.

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-- Appendix 2: Acquisition history of selected mining books in Göttingen -- Appendix 3: Friedrich Casimir Medicus's unpublished proposal for a Faculty of state administration at the University of Ingolstadt.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-218) and index.
LCCN	2008036715
ISBN	9780226870205 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0226870200 (cloth : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	HB91 .W35 2009	✔ Available	Place Hold