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OverviewThis book is about the parlance of political economic ideas with scientific practices in the Duchy of Milan, from the late eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy to the early nineteenth-century Napoleonic era. It advocates for a shift in perspective from the history of ideas of political economy to the history of scientific practices, as an innovative methodological stance, to offer a more articulated understanding of how political economic ideas circulated and were appropriated in Europe and Milan between the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In sum, the book asserts that the making and enforcement of political economic ideas into policies could not be possible without the mediation of scientific practices, and draws on a number of concrete examples to substantiate this claim. Following approval, policies had to be tested; tests involved practitioners such as mechanicks, artisans, bakers and land surveyors, alongside institutions. These figures, mostly kept out of the picture of eighteenth-century political economy; built machines to grind grain in a Physiocratic fashion; drained marshes to realise Joseph II’s plans of economic improvement; surveyed abandoned mines as a way to embrace Cameralist conceptions of the state; and wrote chemistry manuals as a celebration of Republican values and models of production. It was these figures, mostly kept out of the picture of eighteenth-century political economy, built machines to grind grain in a Physiocratic fashion; drained marshes to realise Joseph II’s plans of economic improvement; surveyed abandoned mines as a way to embrace Cameralist conceptions of the state; and wrote chemistry manuals as a celebration of Republican values and models of production. More broadly, this book also situates the Duchy of Milan at the centre of European transfers of political economic knowledge, delving into the broad interconnections between ideas and technological practices in the Enlightenment. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lavinia MaddalunoPublisher: Liverpool University Press Imprint: Voltaire Foundation Volume: 2024:10 ISBN: 9781835534045ISBN 10: 183553404 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 28 October 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations List of figures Introduction Actors The meaning of scientific practice Competing traditions in political economy Scientific practices and political economic reforms Chapter I Milling the economy: bread making practices and ersatz in eighteenth-century mila Landriani as a go-between Father carrara’s bakery and barraco’s machine Maize and economic milling Chapter II From economic machines to public happiness Beccaria and the measure of the enlightenment Pasta, bread making presses and “intermittent” lumi Mechanical artefacts and the state Galilean and cameralist echoes Chapter III Perpetuating private property: machines and hydraulics Miglioramento, language and economia rustica Castelli’s hydraulics D’alembert and progress The “character of sovereigns” The ventilatore idraulico Spaces of political economy: natural history, mineralogy and wealth Domenico vandelli’s survey of valsassina (1763) Vandelli’s travel journal: cameralism, curiositas and utilitas Shifting to mineralogy and the soil Networks of natural history knowledge Action, history and projectors Chapter V Visions of the soil between enlightened reforms and the napoleonic period The ispettorato per i nitri e le polveri From roman to milanese soil Creating saltpetre expertise Spaces of rural economy: the soil and its fertility Conclusion Starting with grain, ending with the soil Bibliography Manuscript sources Printed sources Editions of sources Secondary sourcesReviewsAuthor InformationLavinia Maddaluno (PhD, Cantab.) is an early modern historian working at Ca’ Foscari University (Venice). Her expertise crosses the history of science and intellectual history, with a focus on early modern Europe. Her research received support from the EUI, the Warburg Institute, Villa I Tatti, the FMSH (Paris) and the Fondazione Einaudi. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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