The first book that acknowledges cameralism as a European rather than just a German historical phenomenon.

Probing the relationship between German political economy and everyday fiscal administration, The Disordered Police State focuses on the cameral sciences—a pe

This book reveals the linked history between cameralism and Enlightenment across 18th-century Europe, yielding a transnational, cultural and intellectual histor

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "pub

Building on the new critical historiography about the evolution of the European state, the book analyses how administrators, scientists, popular publicists and